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To: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: freebsd installer is braindead
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>
>
>what about the problem of it extracting into the mfsroot? switching nics
>fixes that?
>
Yea, that was actually the main problem I was referring to. The "look 
up" problem
can be eluded by aborting then restarting the installation. I did this 
in Expert Mode
so I could go straight to media configuration once, thunking the Ether 
device to
manifest the "look up" bug. Then, during stall, interrupted the look-up 
to restart
the entire sysinstall instance. The second media initialization is clean.

Switching from the 8139 fixed the mfsroot bug as well. I have no idea 
what the
link between the 8139 and the mfsroot is. I'm putting money on an interrupt
layer mishandling. None the less, switching NICs fixed it.
Don




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