Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:43:24 -0600 From: "Edwin L. Culp W." <edwinlculp@gmail.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Edward Martinez <eam1edward@gmail.com> Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? Message-ID: <CALFgp2MGMCipX2=MDAKBCqUShvY9H9iwX3oA6tgSUwL14uiNFw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111123162723.GA29700@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> References: <20111123162723.GA29700@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:27 AM, William Bulley <web@umich.edu> wrote: > According to Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> on Tue, 11/22/11 at 23:48: >> >> Sorry William, this arrived not long after I crashed, 18-hour odd time >> difference .. I've since seen Frank Shute advise how to csup from 8.2-S >> to RELENG_9_0 and in your case that's likely the easiest way to go. > > Sorry about the time difference - not much I can do about that... =A0:-) > >> As you see, you got exactly the same error I got with BETA1, and for the >> same reason - bsdinstall isn't running newfs on your existing partitions >> before trying to extract the distribution. =A0I thought that was going t= o >> be fixed before release, but clearly not yet. =A0It really needs the new= fs >> toggle option of sysinstall/sade before it'll be useful as sysinstall. >> >> The docs are very much a work in progress. =A0Even sysinstall requires y= ou >> to at least enter the mountpoints for your existing partitions (within a >> slice); they're needed for install and of course to build /etc/fstab. >> >> In my case, wanting to preserve /home, seems I'll have to NOT supply a >> mountpoint for that partition in order for it to be left alone, and then >> add it into fstab afterwards, probably having to merge any newly created >> user there from /usr/home, revert the symlink etc. =A0Messy. >> >> Did you try running sysinstall (or sade), just to do the slicing + >> partitioning / newfs'ing from Live CD mode, only on DVD1 I guess? >> >> In your case I think a source upgrade and building is probably the way >> to go. =A0In my case, my 8.2 is on another slice (s4), but I want 9.0 on >> s2, over an existing 7.4-RELEASE, because that slice has enough space >> for a decent ongoing 9.x system, and because I'd hoped to contribute to >> debugging bsdinstall - but then I moved and had no net access for nearly >> a month. =A0Still, I'm persisting with that plan and I'll keep hassling >> until this regression in functionality is fixed, for 9.1 now I guess. > > The third time is the charm! > > I was successful (and am now running 9.0-PRERELEASE!) with the upgrade > of this older Dell laptop. =A0The first (failed attempt) was from 8.2-S > to 9.x anything (turned out to be RC1 at the time). =A0This was a source > upgrade (csup/buildworld/installworld) but failed during the compilation > of the kernel. > > At this point I decided to just grab the DVD1 and install over my 8.2-S > since I was not invested in anything on the disk (although I had csup'd > the ports tree and was running Xorg successfully at that point). =A0The > DVD1 ISO install of 9.0-RC1 was unsuccessful due to the oddness of the > bsdinstall program as you describe above. > > At about this time RC1 was transitioning to RC2, so I decided to grab the > bootonly RC2 ISO and yesterday ran into the same bsdinstall issues. =A0So > I was forced to try the source upgrade again, hoping that by this time > the kernel compilation problem had been fixed. > > Well, evidently it was, because the csup/buildworld/installworld method > worked like a charm and I am now happily running 9.0-PRERELEASE. =A0Thank= s > for all the replies and suggestions. =A0I am going to try to avoid using > bsdinstall like the plague and I advise others to do likewise, at least > until it becomes more mature. =A0It seems to me that the inclusion of the > bsdinstall program as the default installer in 9.0 is illadvised at best. > Amen. I share that opinion. I have never had problems or even been confused with the old installer and have used it since the beginning. I have heard that pcBSD has a great new graphic installer and thought it was going to be included in releng_9 but it seems as though it isn't. I understand that you can use it for FreeBSD through the pcBSD dvd but haven't looked at it. If anyone likes it and has a link to some basic docs, it would be great if you would share them. If not, I personally prefer the old one as an option, if possible. ed > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Email: web@umich.e= du > > 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->| > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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