Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 16:40:10 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Steve Willoughby <steve@ichips.intel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with install process in 2.1.6 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961208163359.4017Y-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.961205181358.3915N-100000@ichips>
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(note: freebsd-install == freebsd-questions) On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Steve Willoughby wrote: > I just subscribed to this list, so hopefully I'm not making the classic > blunder of asking something already asked a million times... Hundreds of others make the same 'classic blunder' each week so don't feel bad :) This is a real good question though. > I just installed 2.1.6-RELEASE on a system, and ran into a bit of a > problem which I've had in 2.1.5 as well: The installation program gets > really unforgiving if it ever runs into a problem. Even problems which > the user can correct and retry. The installation program appears to just > throw up its hands and say "that failed last time, I won't try it again." > > The most recent case: > * I recently had to install from floppies (yeah, I know, but this machine > had no network card or working serial ports (yet)). I prepared the > floppies as directed in the installation guide, only to have FreeBSD > reject them, saying that my media contains none of my selected > distributions. 1. The floppy install in 2.1.6 is horrid. It has a goofy set of assumptions that only Jordan could understand :) Someone wrote up the entire instruction set on how to do floppy install the sysinstall way, check the archives. Basically, it entails putting the .inf file on the last floppy of the previous distribution (which I didn't think was necessary). That may work for you. 2. I've noticed in the 2.1.5 (and thus this one assumedly) that sysinstall has a linear view of reality. If it gets confused, then yes, it will try to pick up where it left off. The best way is to just start over. Sorry. > Otherwise, I like the improvements to the installation process, but I'd > like to see more opportunity for the user to intervene, fix problems, > and have the flexability to continue again from there. That would be quite nice, yes. I believe there is an effor to fix the stupid little stuff for 2.2; I'll try to find the person to bug about this. If you feel real adventurus you could dig into sysinstall and try to fix it yourself; ahh, the advantage of free source. :) You might try bugging Jordan (jkh@freebsd.org) or the hackers list (hackers@freebsd.org) if you wanted to try that tack. Thanks very much for the input and glad you got through the sysinstall jungle :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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