From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 19 08:15:13 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 82DA7106566C for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:15:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3fd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056B98FC0A for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:15:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id pAJ8F4mm030371 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:15:05 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.1 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk pAJ8F4mm030371 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1321690505; bh=+0vCPzvGf+uEG03ckUX/ZS5/qFnXFFULaLDBWrKhpVo=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Cc; b=Fxvta4Wy7tfv6SzLVdjLrOmWMH7RyY+/xjcgAWGra3xt9fY/S1E2bHpUv++k5rg1z dBCFGZl1ShtbPCvqD6rcqwJZhVUz09Dzfb3MFtn8pkvMfM6KY5qnnQp1y7XFRvw7Dr xcYv5Rus+1ujlOfpRU3e1u7iw2qLH2WkT/SdvXqQ= Message-ID: <4EC76580.7060204@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:14:56 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20111118230001.GJ8967@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> <4EC6FE1A.2040207@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EC6FE1A.2040207@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD6952B3AE52C98F3A59EEBD4" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk 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: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:15:13 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD6952B3AE52C98F3A59EEBD4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 19/11/2011 00:53, Edward Martinez wrote: > 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"). xz(1) is the latest compression program around. It usually gets better results than bzip2 so lots of usages are being switched to it. .txz is a tar archive compressed with xz. Hmmm.. I wonder if the base.txz file on your install media has become corrupt? If you've got a FreeBSD machine around (any supported 7.x or 8.x would do), you could just mount your 9.0 disk on it, find that file wherever it is in the disk, and see if 'tar -tvf base.txz' will show you the contents without errors. The other possibility is that you ran out of space in the partition you were trying to write to. You'ld have to open an emergency holographic shell to investigate (does the new installer even have that wording? It should...) One thing to check is not only space usage but inode usage too. There's an ongoing discussion about installing onto small drives and whether the bytes-to-inode ratio should be modified there. The lack of a leading '/' on the path you saw is normal -- your hard drive is mounted at something like /mnt while the system is installed onto it. The installer is just using paths relative to that mountpoint. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enigD6952B3AE52C98F3A59EEBD4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7HZYgACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyi0wCeJeqibXOhUhY3uJAr5Rb9WMBH OA0An3qXoERnZv2wrM69udnqvuVyW5/d =o3hX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD6952B3AE52C98F3A59EEBD4--