Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:02:34 +0800 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: Edward Martinez <eam1edward@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? Message-ID: <4EC70E3A.7010209@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20111119000822.GK8967@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> References: <20111119000822.GK8967@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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William Bulley wrote: > According to Edward Martinez <eam1edward@gmail.com> on Fri, 11/18/11 at 19:53: >> Have you tried installing with "ACPI" disabled. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-install-trouble.html#Q3.10.2.1. >> >> this also may be of some help: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html > > Thanks. > > I will try disabling "ACPI" but this wasn't necessary for the install > of 8.2-RELEASE from CD which, as I said, went in just as I expected. > > I would not think that much would have changed in 9.0RC2 in this area. > Maybe I am wrong about that. > > The second URL describes the Manual vs. Guided install and partition > section of bsdinstall. I had read this several days before the 9.0RC2 > install attempt from DVD. It seemed pretty reasonable, but a little bit > different from sysinstall. Was worth a try. > > What I saw when I selected Manual partitioning, was a complete tree: > > ad0 > ad0s1 [FreeBSD Boot Manager from 8.2] > ad0s1a xxxx [was my previous root partition] > ad0s1d xxxx [was my previous swap partition] > ad0s1d xxxx [was my previous /var partition] > ad0s1e xxxx [was my previous /usr partition] > > or something very close to that, missing only my mount points from my > previous 8.2-STABLE system. I added the mount points (this is the area > where I thought bsdinstall had some weaknesses in the "User Experience") > and went on after selecting "Finish". > > The problem occurred much later after I selected all four install files. > When I said the equivalent of "Go", it began the process of loading them > off the DVD, checking their checksums, and compressing them prior to > installing them. It was while processing the first (base.txz) chunk > that the popup appeared giving me the "unable to write" or "unable to > uncompress" message. Can't recall the exact error now some hours later... :-( > > So the extraction step failed the first file, and I never made it to > the Post-Installation phase, sigh... :-( > > Regards, > > web... > I think you have under sized /usr and the uncompress ran out of space during the install. Start over again, wipe the disk clean (ie: delete all slices)and re-allocate your slices with larger space allocations.
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