9.0-BETA1 installer issues

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 06/08/2011 15:48, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 08/05/11 10:58, Lars Engels wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:03:22PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:36:01AM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>>>> On 08/02/11 04:41, Bruce Cran wrote:
>>>>>> I've been trying out 9.0-BETA1: it's a lot easier to install than
>>>>>> previous releases with bsdinstall, but I spotted a few issues:
>>>>> Good! Thanks for checking.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Typo - "Resovler Configuration".
>>>>>> If I leave the resolver window for a while it gets corrupted with:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aug 2 10:31:23 dhclient[973]: Bogus domain search list 15: lan,
>>>>>> .....
>>>>> Interesting. It looks like DHCP doesn't like your local setup...
>>>>>
>>>>>> In the documentation installation screen, it should say "At a
>>>>>> minimum..." - the 'a' is missing. Also, there should perhaps be a
>>>>>> semi-colon between "English version" and "this is the original". 
>>>>>> The
>>>>>> menu also doesn't appear to do anything once you select "OK".
>>>>> The spelling fixes are easy to fix. The documentation issue is more
>>>>> confusing. It should begin running pkg_add, after you press OK,
>>>>> assuming
>>>>> you selected something. Do you have the installer log handy? It
>>>>> will be
>>>>> in /tmp.
>>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Hmm I think it's "default" PACKAGESITE env variable pointing on
>>>> non-existing
>>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/<arch>/packages-9-beta1/Latest/
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'm wrong, I did an install and same behavior as Bruce.
>>> I looked in /tmp/bsdinstall_log:
>>>
>>> Running installation step: docsintall
>>> pkg_add: unable to fetch
>>> 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/Latest/en-freebsd-doc.tbz'
>>> by URL
>>                                    ^^^^^^
>> I haven't looked at bsdinstall lately, but IIRC there's no dialog that
>> offers a mirror selection? It would be nice to select a nearby server.
>
> For the regular distfiles (base, kernel, etc.) you can pick a mirror,
> but installing packages (e.g. documentation) relies on the behavior of
> pkg_add -r.
> -Nathan
So it should be doable by using the PACKAGEROOT env variable?
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