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Date:      Wed, 3 Aug 2011 21:03:22 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer issues
Message-ID:  <20110803190322.GD1973@emphyrio.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110803182834.GC1973@emphyrio.blackend.org>
References:  <4E37C634.6090002@cran.org.uk> <4E37FD41.4070601@freebsd.org> <20110803182834.GC1973@emphyrio.blackend.org>

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On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:36:01AM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> > On 08/02/11 04:41, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > > I've been trying out 9.0-BETA1: it's a lot easier to install than 
> > > previous releases with bsdinstall, but I spotted a few issues:
> > 
> > Good! Thanks for checking.
> > 
> > > Typo - "Resovler Configuration".
> > > If I leave the resolver window for a while it gets corrupted with:
> > >
> > > Aug 2 10:31:23 dhclient[973]: Bogus domain search list 15: lan, .....
> > 
> > Interesting. It looks like DHCP doesn't like your local setup...
> > 
> > > In the documentation installation screen, it should say "At a 
> > > minimum..." - the 'a' is missing. Also, there should perhaps be a 
> > > semi-colon between "English version" and "this is the original".  The 
> > > menu also doesn't appear to do anything once you select "OK".
> > 
> > The spelling fixes are easy to fix. The documentation issue is more 
> > confusing. It should begin running pkg_add, after you press OK, assuming 
> > you selected something. Do you have the installer log handy? It will be 
> > in /tmp.
> >
> [...]
> 
> Hmm I think it's "default" PACKAGESITE env variable pointing on
> non-existing
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/<arch>/packages-9-beta1/Latest/
>

I'm wrong, I did an install and same behavior as Bruce.
I looked in /tmp/bsdinstall_log:

Running installation step: docsintall
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/Latest/en-freebsd-doc.tbz' by URL

Any idea?

-- 
Marc



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