Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:35:41 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@wavecable.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install from .iso Fails Message-ID: <20190902133541.715838bf.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <7d26cf5d-cfeb-c66a-39b2-3e2a53ed06be@wavecable.com> References: <74e749a3-b544-9bd5-d33a-31a05ede550d@wavecable.com> <0aa49415-4e1b-afe8-8e2a-b14935838ba0@wavecable.com> <c63846ca-74cd-510a-6262-9ba01e70918a@wavecable.com> <7ebb0c1b-335e-8b8e-0c1e-1e95ffe050b9@gmail.com> <4f85bc7f-ace1-457c-211a-207acbb755a2@wavecable.com> <20190901220511.b90fab1d.freebsd@edvax.de> <61dd60cd-7fed-aea5-6878-61c9cc1b12aa@wavecable.com> <76573660-4ee9-a25b-d3fa-58b0b4f6cd60@gmail.com> <7d26cf5d-cfeb-c66a-39b2-3e2a53ed06be@wavecable.com>
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On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 18:40:12 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On 9/1/19 5:54 PM, MJ wrote: > > Hi Tom, > >=20 > > [I cropped a lot of this message - it's needless detail] > >=20 > >> I killed all the bsdinstall stuff before I answered any of the=20 > >> questions.=A0 As soon as the first install box appeared, I switched to= =20 > >> ttyv3(?) where root was logged in.=A0 Before selecting keyboard model. > >> > >=20 > > It's still risky. Who knows what it has started writing out. If you hav= e=20 > > to do this, I suggest just rebooting and restarting the installation=20 > > rather than re-starting via the console. >=20 > Does bsdinstall start writing BEFORE the keyboard model is selected?=20 > Before the device is selected? No. There are two steps that cause writes: The first one is the partitioning step (add partitions, initialize filesystems), the second one is actually installing the software, after the "commit" choice: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-final= -warning.html > Is this documented in the handbook? I did not see it. Well, bsdinstall has its own chapter (referenced above). --=20 Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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