From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 31 15:05:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABA916A418 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:05:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E1F13C480 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:05:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1InCuN-0002am-Pq for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:42:55 +0000 Received: from 161.53.72.68 ([161.53.72.68]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:42:55 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 161.53.72.68 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:42:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:44:56 +0100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <200710301834.l9UIYeW55836@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 161.53.72.68 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) In-Reply-To: <200710301834.l9UIYeW55836@lakes.dignus.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: 7.0 BETA1.5 initial findings... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:05:34 -0000 Thomas David Rivers wrote: > Just wanted to report some of my results with installing > the BETA1.5 CDs.... with a CD-ONLY install. > > This is on an Intel quad-core with 2G of memory, and 300G SATA > drive and older ATAPI DVD drive (Intel DG33BU motherboard.) > > First; after you partition & label and choose your distributions; > it's time to remove the "BOOTONLY" CD and place DISC1 in the > drive. There's nothing that tells you this.. if you don't > do this, then the process merrily fails at trying to install > everything.. twice over. After that, you have an opportunity > to try and install again, putting DISC1 in the drive. I'd > suggest a little box saying "remove the BOOTONLY CD, insert DISC1 > and press OK" when it's time to start installing the distributions. > > Second - if you choose the X11 packages in the distributions; > they don't work. The install process complains that it > can't find packages/INDEX on either DISC1 or DISK2. I'm not > sure how to get the X11 packages installed from a CD-only install. Yes, you are right. These things are "idiosyncratic" for FreeBSD and sysinstall: - "bootonly" really means that you can't do anything with it except boot the kernel (you need disc1 to install it, it has everything on it) - beta install CDs (disc1) are missing all the packages and the fixit live system (at least the current one does).