From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 2 13:36:06 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 59E131065670 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:36:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDC18FC1B for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:36:06 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LPA00100Z45NO00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:36:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.68.180]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LPA009NFZ42I620@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:36:02 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:36:01 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <4E37C634.6090002@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-id: <4E37FD41.4070601@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-14, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.8.2.132717, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 References: <4E37C634.6090002@cran.org.uk> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110704 Thunderbird/5.0 Cc: Bruce Cran 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: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:36:06 -0000 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. > The shell menu should perhaps have a newline after "making", to avoid > "configuration" wrapping. > Also, the partitioning screen should maybe have "Continue" instead of > "Exit". These are good points. I'll fix them. > The known issue with the installation not creating /home is still > present in BETA1. > This was caused by a change in behavior of pw(8) in mid-June, which has been reverted in r224535. This unfortunately missed BETA1... -Nathan