bin/161051: bsdinstall cannot install on existing partitions
Ben Kaduk
kaduk at mit.edu
Tue Sep 27 01:40:06 UTC 2011
>Number: 161051
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: bsdinstall cannot install on existing partitions
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 27 01:40:05 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ben Kaduk
>Release: 9-beta 2
>Organization:
MIT SIPB
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
Per my mail to -current of 16 September 2011, I had an old scratch box with 7.4 on it, that I wanted to try the installer out on. I figured I could just reuse the partitions for testing (even though this is in general risky, due to stale libraries/configuration files/etc.), but was unable to do so. The extracting stage died with an error about being unable to create /var/empty with appropriate permissions.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install 9-beta2 on existing partitions
>Fix:
Either the /var/empty errors could be worked around, or the installer should refuse to use existing partitions.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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