where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

[Edward Martinez]

On 11/18/11 15:00, William Bulley wrote:
> According to Matthew Seaman<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>  on Fri, 11/18/11 at 17:41:
>> On 18/11/2011 21:27, William Bulley wrote:
>>> I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today.  This defaults
>>> to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall.
>>>
>>> This process gave me an error, but I'm not sure in which forum
>>> to discuss this problem/error.  Thanks in advance.
>> freesd-questions@ is fine to talk about this sort of problem. At least,
>> initially.  Give us more detail on exactly what you did, what then
>> happened, (and maybe why you think that was wrong) and we can probably
>> help you get your system installed.
>>
>> If it turns out to be a bug in the new installer rather than operator
>> error, then freebsd-current@ is the place to take it.
> Okay, here goes.   :-)
>
> I was loading a decent but somewhat older Dell laptop with FreeBSD
> for a friend who bailed since he didn't want to bother configuring
> Xorg.  Since this is fairly trivial these days, I said, "sure, I'd
> do that for you" - silly me...   :-(
>
> Anyway, do to the user requirements, I found it necessary to load
> a version 9.x system on this laptop.  I burned this version to DVD:
>
>     FreeBSD-9.0-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso
>
> The laptop had no trouble booting from this DVD.  Unfortunately, I
> forgot about the new bsdinstall program.  I was dubious but it seemed
> to start out okay.  I had some User Interface issues with the Manual
> disk partition screen, but that is a matter of taste or a feature
> request, and not the bug.
>
> Everything progressed just fine as the various *.txz files were
> loaded, checked and installed.  Or so it seemed...
>
> As the progress bar moved to the right toward 100% completion, a
> window popped up telling me that it (bsdinstall) could not handle
> the base.txz (BTW, what does the suffix ".txz" mean?) - it could
> not uncompress it and said something about "unable to write" and
> the string was something like: "var/base.txz" (note the lack of
> a leading slash in front of "var").
>
> It asked me if I wanted to continue or restart and I said "yes",
> but the bsdinstall started over from scratch and failed in the
> same manner.
>
> Unfortunately I had to bail on the attempt...   :-(
>
> Prior to this, I had loaded and configured 8.2-RELEASE and had
> upgraded it to 8.2-STABLE.  I csup'd the ports tree and built
> enough ports to run Xorg.  And I got X11 running after a bit.
>
> But when I tried to upgrade again to 9.x (anything) I ran into
> problems there (slips my mind why at present) which led me to
> trying the FreeBSD-9.0-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso approach.  What a mess...   :-(
>
> Regards,
>
> web...
>
    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