From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 18:07:04 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD972106566C for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:07:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwinlculp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2CB8FC13 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faap15 with SMTP id p15so2871406faa.13 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:07:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WFGvDpAZ0NaHlQ1ItVGElnggrAq9FLv2M+xAvy1+z1Q=; b=q2hqcxQIbG8q+FEkP2Jh6ptMJ1znw/6Zd2uGAiZRSe4ymVXuSB8Sveb6cw002P3CLR YbU0fejYo0Zb7AYd0+MWXSG0OkyJ+hGOvxSO2VMcw5Fh0eCWiGFqbJZPCHM65mWOT40Z HtWpDMxhirhLtj5PU/M846Rgj9drIyZhLPISI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.205.128.19 with SMTP id hc19mr25520867bkc.9.1322070204258; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:43:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.37.207 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:43:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111123162723.GA29700@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> References: <20111123162723.GA29700@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:43:24 -0600 Message-ID: From: "Edwin L. Culp W." To: Ian Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Edward Martinez Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:07:04 -0000 On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:27 AM, William Bulley wrote: > According to Ian Smith on Tue, 11/22/11 at 23:48: >> >> Sorry William, this arrived not long after I crashed, 18-hour odd time >> difference .. I've since seen Frank Shute advise how to csup from 8.2-S >> to RELENG_9_0 and in your case that's likely the easiest way to go. > > Sorry about the time difference - not much I can do about that... =A0:-) > >> As you see, you got exactly the same error I got with BETA1, and for the >> same reason - bsdinstall isn't running newfs on your existing partitions >> before trying to extract the distribution. =A0I thought that was going t= o >> be fixed before release, but clearly not yet. =A0It really needs the new= fs >> toggle option of sysinstall/sade before it'll be useful as sysinstall. >> >> The docs are very much a work in progress. =A0Even sysinstall requires y= ou >> to at least enter the mountpoints for your existing partitions (within a >> slice); they're needed for install and of course to build /etc/fstab. >> >> In my case, wanting to preserve /home, seems I'll have to NOT supply a >> mountpoint for that partition in order for it to be left alone, and then >> add it into fstab afterwards, probably having to merge any newly created >> user there from /usr/home, revert the symlink etc. =A0Messy. >> >> Did you try running sysinstall (or sade), just to do the slicing + >> partitioning / newfs'ing from Live CD mode, only on DVD1 I guess? >> >> In your case I think a source upgrade and building is probably the way >> to go. =A0In my case, my 8.2 is on another slice (s4), but I want 9.0 on >> s2, over an existing 7.4-RELEASE, because that slice has enough space >> for a decent ongoing 9.x system, and because I'd hoped to contribute to >> debugging bsdinstall - but then I moved and had no net access for nearly >> a month. =A0Still, I'm persisting with that plan and I'll keep hassling >> until this regression in functionality is fixed, for 9.1 now I guess. > > The third time is the charm! > > I was successful (and am now running 9.0-PRERELEASE!) with the upgrade > of this older Dell laptop. =A0The first (failed attempt) was from 8.2-S > to 9.x anything (turned out to be RC1 at the time). =A0This was a source > upgrade (csup/buildworld/installworld) but failed during the compilation > of the kernel. > > At this point I decided to just grab the DVD1 and install over my 8.2-S > since I was not invested in anything on the disk (although I had csup'd > the ports tree and was running Xorg successfully at that point). =A0The > DVD1 ISO install of 9.0-RC1 was unsuccessful due to the oddness of the > bsdinstall program as you describe above. > > At about this time RC1 was transitioning to RC2, so I decided to grab the > bootonly RC2 ISO and yesterday ran into the same bsdinstall issues. =A0So > I was forced to try the source upgrade again, hoping that by this time > the kernel compilation problem had been fixed. > > Well, evidently it was, because the csup/buildworld/installworld method > worked like a charm and I am now happily running 9.0-PRERELEASE. =A0Thank= s > for all the replies and suggestions. =A0I am going to try to avoid using > bsdinstall like the plague and I advise others to do likewise, at least > until it becomes more mature. =A0It seems to me that the inclusion of the > bsdinstall program as the default installer in 9.0 is illadvised at best. > Amen. I share that opinion. I have never had problems or even been confused with the old installer and have used it since the beginning. I have heard that pcBSD has a great new graphic installer and thought it was going to be included in releng_9 but it seems as though it isn't. I understand that you can use it for FreeBSD through the pcBSD dvd but haven't looked at it. If anyone likes it and has a link to some basic docs, it would be great if you would share them. If not, I personally prefer the old one as an option, if possible. ed > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Email: web@umich.e= du > > 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->| > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >