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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:50:40 +0800
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@www.svzserv.kemerovo.su>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Bug in sysinstall (4-STABLE): broken Ctrl-Alt-Del/Restart
Message-ID:  <20011010105040.A98969@svzserv.kemerovo.su>

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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

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