From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 11 15:01:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E8716A4DF for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:01:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw4.york.ac.uk (mail-gw4.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46D643D49 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:01:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.160]) by mail-gw4.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7BF1Wb8029351; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:01:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7BF1WPP067755; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:01:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k7BF1V3N067754; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:01:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Angelo Turetta In-Reply-To: <44DC96C8.4060309@commit.it> References: <44DC96C8.4060309@commit.it> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:01:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1155308491.66594.8.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-CURRENT-200608-amd64 sysinstall bug? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:01:52 -0000 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