Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:00:01 -0500 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? Message-ID: <20111118230001.GJ8967@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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According to Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> on Fri, 11/18/11 at 17:41: > On 18/11/2011 21:27, William Bulley wrote: > > I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults > > to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall. > > > > This process gave me an error, but I'm not sure in which forum > > to discuss this problem/error. Thanks in advance. > > freesd-questions@ is fine to talk about this sort of problem. At least, > initially. Give us more detail on exactly what you did, what then > happened, (and maybe why you think that was wrong) and we can probably > help you get your system installed. > > If it turns out to be a bug in the new installer rather than operator > error, then freebsd-current@ is the place to take it. Okay, here goes. :-) I was loading a decent but somewhat older Dell laptop with FreeBSD for a friend who bailed since he didn't want to bother configuring Xorg. Since this is fairly trivial these days, I said, "sure, I'd do that for you" - silly me... :-( Anyway, do to the user requirements, I found it necessary to load a version 9.x system on this laptop. I burned this version to DVD: FreeBSD-9.0-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso The laptop had no trouble booting from this DVD. Unfortunately, I forgot about the new bsdinstall program. I was dubious but it seemed to start out okay. I had some User Interface issues with the Manual disk partition screen, but that is a matter of taste or a feature request, and not the bug. Everything progressed just fine as the various *.txz files were loaded, checked and installed. Or so it seemed... As the progress bar moved to the right toward 100% completion, a window popped up telling me that it (bsdinstall) could not handle the base.txz (BTW, what does the suffix ".txz" mean?) - it could not uncompress it and said something about "unable to write" and the string was something like: "var/base.txz" (note the lack of a leading slash in front of "var"). It asked me if I wanted to continue or restart and I said "yes", but the bsdinstall started over from scratch and failed in the same manner. Unfortunately I had to bail on the attempt... :-( Prior to this, I had loaded and configured 8.2-RELEASE and had upgraded it to 8.2-STABLE. I csup'd the ports tree and built enough ports to run Xorg. And I got X11 running after a bit. But when I tried to upgrade again to 9.x (anything) I ran into problems there (slips my mind why at present) which led me to trying the FreeBSD-9.0-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso approach. What a mess... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|
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