From owner-freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 16 20:09:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: bugbusters@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016BF16A47C for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:09:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dingo@coco2.arach.net.au) Received: from www.herakles.homelinux.org (coco2.arach.net.au [203.34.16.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B80643D69 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:09:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dingo@coco2.arach.net.au) Received: from mail.herakles.homelinux.org (unknown [192.168.7.254]) by www.herakles.homelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2019528D91 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:09:25 +0800 (WST) Received: from mail2.cds.merseine.nu (ns.demo.lan [192.168.9.4]) by mail.herakles.homelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A921F67C for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:13:54 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.9.146] (Bilby.demo.lan [192.168.9.146]) by mail2.cds.merseine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D798F80A for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:11:42 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <4533931E.2070804@coco2.arach.net.au> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:11:42 +0800 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20050416) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bugbusters@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Installation of 6.2 beta 2 fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Coordination of the Problem Report handling effort." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:09:39 -0000 I booted CD1, chose to clobber my working Linux system (use entire disk), chose a custom software selection (including pretty much all the source, I have 80 Gb to fill) and let 'er rip. Right now it's complaining, "Unable to get packages/INDEX from selected media." and goes on with a highly improbable explanation that the packages might not be on the selected media, and that I should fix it. It's a terrible abuse of English, that. Now surely you folk haven't put together _that_ brummy a CD 1. Besides, it does seem to have installed lots, and things like csh are in place. There aren't any kernel messages (from dmesg) to suggest reading the CD was difficult. But then again, pkg_info says there aren't any packages; I really don't know enough about FreeBSD to tell what's wrong. The current position is that the installer says my CD is borked, but it won't let it out so I can replace it. The only way I can see to go forward is to reboot and try something else* What I think should happen at this point is that the installer should allow me to back up and choose a different install medium, whether another CD (I mean, crook CDs aren't unknown, even if this one's okay) or a different network source. I don't believe it would help me in this instance, but I'd sure feel better knowing I could try something else. ps, it may well be that that image thingie is illegal as it could be held to discriminate unfairly against the blind. I think a little javascript that produces, say, bugbuster+$(date +%Y%U)@freebsd.org would give you a suitable means of filtering out the spam. I think I could devise a procmail rule to do it. Or you could put the date part into the domain name, with only two or three resolving at any time. * The computer's sitting there waiting for me to think of something. Fortunately, I have others (too many according to my wife!).