Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:37:15 GMT From: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/161051: bsdinstall cannot install on existing partitions Message-ID: <201109270137.p8R1bFba051533@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201109270140.p8R1e5KQ094374@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 161051 >Category: bin >Synopsis: bsdinstall cannot install on existing partitions >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 27 01:40:05 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ben Kaduk >Release: 9-beta 2 >Organization: MIT SIPB >Environment: n/a >Description: Per my mail to -current of 16 September 2011, I had an old scratch box with 7.4 on it, that I wanted to try the installer out on. I figured I could just reuse the partitions for testing (even though this is in general risky, due to stale libraries/configuration files/etc.), but was unable to do so. The extracting stage died with an error about being unable to create /var/empty with appropriate permissions. >How-To-Repeat: Try to install 9-beta2 on existing partitions >Fix: Either the /var/empty errors could be worked around, or the installer should refuse to use existing partitions. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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