From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 14:57:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A551065674 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:57:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from adsum.doit.wisc.edu (adsum.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC1C8FC18 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:57:14 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LSN00K10DFD2N00@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for sysinstall@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:57:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.75.72]) by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LSN00CWEDFACQ10@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:57:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:57:10 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <86lisywhoh.fsf@ds4.des.no> To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= Message-id: <4E8DB3B6.7040103@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.75.72 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-12, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.10.6.134514, SenderIP=76.210.75.72 References: <86lisywhoh.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110928 Thunderbird/7.0 Cc: sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues in 9.0 installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:57:14 -0000 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