Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:08:22 -0500 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Edward Martinez <eam1edward@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? Message-ID: <20111119000822.GK8967@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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According to Edward Martinez <eam1edward@gmail.com> on Fri, 11/18/11 at 19:53: > > 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 Thanks. I will try disabling "ACPI" but this wasn't necessary for the install of 8.2-RELEASE from CD which, as I said, went in just as I expected. I would not think that much would have changed in 9.0RC2 in this area. Maybe I am wrong about that. The second URL describes the Manual vs. Guided install and partition section of bsdinstall. I had read this several days before the 9.0RC2 install attempt from DVD. It seemed pretty reasonable, but a little bit different from sysinstall. Was worth a try. What I saw when I selected Manual partitioning, was a complete tree: ad0 ad0s1 [FreeBSD Boot Manager from 8.2] ad0s1a xxxx [was my previous root partition] ad0s1d xxxx [was my previous swap partition] ad0s1d xxxx [was my previous /var partition] ad0s1e xxxx [was my previous /usr partition] or something very close to that, missing only my mount points from my previous 8.2-STABLE system. I added the mount points (this is the area where I thought bsdinstall had some weaknesses in the "User Experience") and went on after selecting "Finish". The problem occurred much later after I selected all four install files. When I said the equivalent of "Go", it began the process of loading them off the DVD, checking their checksums, and compressing them prior to installing them. It was while processing the first (base.txz) chunk that the popup appeared giving me the "unable to write" or "unable to uncompress" message. Can't recall the exact error now some hours later... :-( So the extraction step failed the first file, and I never made it to the Post-Installation phase, sigh... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|
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