CD Drive "locked" during install, can't commit

[Richard Lynch]

On Thu, January 4, 2007 1:42 am, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:20, Richard Lynch wrote:
>> Due to some hardware issues (not really relevant here) I've
>> re-installed FreeBSD about 6 times in the last couple days.
>>
>> On one of those occasions, I managed to go through a sequence not
>> unlike this:
>>
>> 1. Standard fdisk/label stuff.
>> 2. Custom install of base, kernel, ports tree (only)
>> 3. Choose some packages, swap disks 1&2 around, lotsa fun.
>> 4. Choose to go back to tweak install at the end.
>> 5. I think I *may* have gone back through the Custom kernel bit, to
>> add the man pages or something...
>> 6. Commit installation.
>>
>> At this point, however, Disk#2 was in the drive, not disk #1.
>>
>> Alas, it kept trying to find base, man, dict, ports on /dev/acd0.
>>
>> It wasn't there, because those are on Disk#1, not #2.

> I've been bit by something similar during install. There is no
> question that
> the installer could use some work. What I do now is just install the
> base
> system, boot then pull everything else in with a network install.
> Saves time
> and frustration from swapping disks. Usually the ports need upgrading
> anyway,
> so the install disks are just a starting point.

Sometimes, a network install for the initial bulk load of software is
not an option...

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