From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 18 23:50:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4DD106564A for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:50:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eam1edward@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4398FC0C for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbg20 with SMTP id g20so1407749ghb.13 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:50:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nWGWUcMtsPJbVDT9N40i2DOmT0l4htGOTyyAP/FVU84=; b=Wm324nZFcGON6JcISusgmXjwJ0xsBVomdzh76daWW/TckDnGQ5gUBwYOVUQT2PRlDM AefUJ2GeXZX4OKHpLnAoJTDcED4YNMwnavHWxoeRjZSlri+Yr3o4Q8rcAeIlDizZ/hwG nbnNJA2+6pHq4Dm0a4+USb+xWaXyDQo4oZfnY= Received: by 10.50.163.97 with SMTP id yh1mr5139874igb.37.1321660252099; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([174.134.109.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bu33sm8695450ibb.11.2011.11.18.15.50.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:50:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EC6FE1A.2040207@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:53:46 -0800 From: Edward Martinez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Bulley References: <20111118230001.GJ8967@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <20111118230001.GJ8967@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:50:53 -0000 On 11/18/11 15:00, William Bulley wrote: > According to Matthew Seaman 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... > Have you tried installing with "ACPI" disabled. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-install-trouble.html#Q3.10.2.1. this also may be of some help: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html