From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 16:05:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CCB1065670 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2011 16:05:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978D08FC0A for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2011 16:05:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman-macbooklocal.local ([10.10.10.20]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p76G5PGu063167 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2011 17:05:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4E3D6645.3010109@unsane.co.uk> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:05:25 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4E37C634.6090002@cran.org.uk> <4E37FD41.4070601@freebsd.org> <20110803182834.GC1973@emphyrio.blackend.org> <20110803190322.GD1973@emphyrio.blackend.org> <20110805155806.GE22122@e-new.0x20.net> <4E3D5436.4020800@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4E3D5436.4020800@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:05:28 -0000 On 06/08/2011 15:48, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 08/05/11 10:58, Lars Engels wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:03:22PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: >>>> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:36:01AM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >>>>> On 08/02/11 04:41, Bruce Cran wrote: >>>>>> I've been trying out 9.0-BETA1: it's a lot easier to install than >>>>>> previous releases with bsdinstall, but I spotted a few issues: >>>>> Good! Thanks for checking. >>>>> >>>>>> Typo - "Resovler Configuration". >>>>>> If I leave the resolver window for a while it gets corrupted with: >>>>>> >>>>>> Aug 2 10:31:23 dhclient[973]: Bogus domain search list 15: lan, >>>>>> ..... >>>>> Interesting. It looks like DHCP doesn't like your local setup... >>>>> >>>>>> In the documentation installation screen, it should say "At a >>>>>> minimum..." - the 'a' is missing. Also, there should perhaps be a >>>>>> semi-colon between "English version" and "this is the original". >>>>>> The >>>>>> menu also doesn't appear to do anything once you select "OK". >>>>> The spelling fixes are easy to fix. The documentation issue is more >>>>> confusing. It should begin running pkg_add, after you press OK, >>>>> assuming >>>>> you selected something. Do you have the installer log handy? It >>>>> will be >>>>> in /tmp. >>>>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>>> Hmm I think it's "default" PACKAGESITE env variable pointing on >>>> non-existing >>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports//packages-9-beta1/Latest/ >>>> >>>> >>> I'm wrong, I did an install and same behavior as Bruce. >>> I looked in /tmp/bsdinstall_log: >>> >>> Running installation step: docsintall >>> pkg_add: unable to fetch >>> 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/Latest/en-freebsd-doc.tbz' >>> by URL >> ^^^^^^ >> I haven't looked at bsdinstall lately, but IIRC there's no dialog that >> offers a mirror selection? It would be nice to select a nearby server. > > For the regular distfiles (base, kernel, etc.) you can pick a mirror, > but installing packages (e.g. documentation) relies on the behavior of > pkg_add -r. > -Nathan So it should be doable by using the PACKAGEROOT env variable? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"