Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:11:00 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@www.svzserv.kemerovo.su> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with installing 4.4-2001104-STABLE Message-ID: <20011006191100.A50977@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
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Hi! Recently I've downloaded this snapshot from releng4.freebsd.org using 'wget -r'. I have also checked md5 checksums, all is Ok. I put snapshot to my local ftp server running FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE with stock ftpd server. Then I start fresh installation over ftp - made 2 floppies, booted machine and choose 'Custom' installation. In the 'Options' screen I turned debug on. When selecting distributions I marked only 'bin' distribution. Media is ftp, interface is ed0 that works perfect. This machine has only 8Mb of RAM and 162Mb of hard drive so I configure 20Mb swap partition and the rest is root filesystem. Here, in the 'Label' screen I hit 'W' to activate swapping. (I remember that starting with 4.2 is is not possible to install FreeBSD with 8M RAM over ftp/ethernet if you do not activate swap before 'Commit'). Now installation starts. It runs ok, downloads and extracts bin distribution (there are still 40M of free disk space, as 'df -k' shows at VT4), but sysinstall says it cannot install bin distribution and asks to restart downloading. At VT2 I see: ... kernel.GENERIC 9440 blocks DEBUG: wait for gunzip returned status of -1! As I can see, there are really no problems and distribution is unrolled. If I do not accept to restart downloading, it proceedes with installation. I have working system after completing installaton and rebooting. Note, that when I accepted restarting of installation, it was an infinite loop. I also tried to restart installation using Ctrl-Alt-Del and choosing 'Restart' from menu. Later there was signal 11, but I cannot remeber exactly at what stage. I rebooted with floppies and tried to install again having slices and partitions from previous try. There were lots of signal 11 in this way, I tried some variations. So, the problem is that I could not install system without ignoring the first complain from sysinstall. Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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