From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 9 19:50:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (www.svzserv.kemerovo.su [213.184.65.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D2B37B444 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eugen@localhost) by www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA00107 for stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:50:40 +0800 (KRAST) (envelope-from eugen) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:50:40 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Bug in sysinstall (4-STABLE): broken Ctrl-Alt-Del/Restart Message-ID: <20011010105040.A98969@svzserv.kemerovo.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Suppose, you start an installation or binary upgrade using sysinstall from network. And suppose, you need to stop it and restart. F.e., for binary upgrade sysinstall reads interface settings from /etc and you need not change something bug address of name server if it was 127.0.0.1 :) If you forget to change it and your installation media is something like ftp://ftp.server.dom/pub/FreeBSD, you will need to restart installation. AFAIK, sysinstall does chroot to /mnt. Now you press C-A-D and choose to restart. You fix installation settings and start installation again. Now sysinstall does chroot AGAIN (it's /mnt/mnt now) and often it will fill up your root partition, for generic install, and fail. Do not use 'Restart' feature, it's broken. Eugene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message