Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:40:00 GMT From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: amd64/177309: sysinstall 'All' distribution selection attempts to install DEBUG kernel Message-ID: <201303231540.r2NFe0ju074905@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR amd64/177309; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64/177309: sysinstall 'All' distribution selection attempts to install DEBUG kernel Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:35:02 -0500 On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> wro= te: > I copied the 8.4-BETA1 directory from the dvd1 ISO and it's contents to a= web server in DocumentRoot at pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/. Booted a VM to= the ISO and selected HTTP Direct for the media type and entered the URL wi= thout a URI. > > Selecting "All" as to which distributions to install, sysinstall proceeds= until it opens a dialog stating "Unable to transfer the DEBUG distribution= from http://$URL. Do you want to try to retrieve it again?". I chose "No"= and it continue. > > As for the DEBUG distribution, I previously asked for sysinstall to have = the ability to install a 2nd kernel (Do you remember, Devin?), which we cal= l DEBUG internally. Naturally, unless someone generates it, the DEBUG dist= ribution will not exist in FreeBSD media generated outside of my company. This is a known issue that was mentioned in the announcement for the testing of 8.4-BETA1: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote: > The following known issues are present in 8.4-BETA1 : > > 2) Selecting 'All' on the 'Choose Distributions' screen attempts to > install a DEBUG kernel which is not present in the image so the > installation will fail. Just select one of the other distributions > ("Developer", "Kern-Developer", "User", etc). > --=20 DISCLAIMER: No electrons were maimed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.
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