Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:01:31 +0100 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Angelo Turetta <aturetta@commit.it> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-CURRENT-200608-amd64 sysinstall bug? Message-ID: <1155308491.66594.8.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <44DC96C8.4060309@commit.it> References: <44DC96C8.4060309@commit.it>
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On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 16:40 +0200, Angelo Turetta wrote: > I'm trying to install the latest -CURRENT snapshot on a PC which won't > boot any other FreeBSD CD (any other ISO I found is missing the recent > nVidia MCP55 ATA fixes). > > After slicing/labeling, and chosing the distribution to install, > sysinstall fails with a '/ disk full' error (ALT-F2 reveals that it was > trying to copy /stand to /mnt/stand) I suspect you've run into a known bug. Did you restart the installer at all during the install process? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-May/014465.html > One more 'cosmetic'. I tried also installing on the slices created on a > previous attempt (without forcing a newfs in disklabel), and sysinstall > warned me that it was operating on a existing root filesystem, where it > expected to find the necessary /dev entries: Is this message still valid > now that /dev is a virtual filesystem? Heh, I bumped into this only a couple of days ago, and was going to submit a patch to fix it this weekend. Gavin
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