Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:57:10 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no> Cc: sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues in 9.0 installer Message-ID: <4E8DB3B6.7040103@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <86lisywhoh.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <86lisywhoh.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On 10/06/11 05:14, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > I installed 9.0 in a VM in order to test some patches, and ran into > three issues with the installer: > > 1) I selected "guided partitioning", then deleted the / and swap > partitions because I wanted more swap. I did not delete the boot > partition, but the wizard complained about there being none. The > first time, I answered yes to creating one, and ended up with two > boot partitions, so I deleted and recreated everything, and got the > same message again. This time I ignored it, and the install went > just fine; bsdinstall apparently found my boot partition and wrote > the boot loader to it. This is something that's hard to do right, since the "freebsd-boot" partition may have the wrong bootcode or may even have been from another OS (Linux and OS X use the same partition type as we do for this on APM, for instance). A fix is to have it check if there is an uncommitted one that the installer has just made, but I haven't had time to make that patch yet. > 2) When I recreated the boot partition, I noticed that bsdinstall does > not accept "64 kB" as a valid partition size. I had to type "64KB". Weird -- looks like a bug in expand_number(3), and should probably be fixed there. > 3) I had the installer create a user for me, but it did not create my > home directory, nor even /home. This was a brief regression in pw(8) that unfortunately made it into BETA1 -- it's been fixed since. > Note that this is from BETA1 - I couldn't find a BETA3 iso online, but > bz had a BETA1 iso on his laptop. I apologize if these issues have > already been found and fixed. > > DES Thanks for your comments! -Nathan
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