7.0-CURRENT-200608-amd64 sysinstall bug?
Gavin Atkinson
gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk
Fri Aug 11 15:01:52 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 16:40 +0200, Angelo Turetta wrote:
> I'm trying to install the latest -CURRENT snapshot on a PC which won't
> boot any other FreeBSD CD (any other ISO I found is missing the recent
> nVidia MCP55 ATA fixes).
>
> After slicing/labeling, and chosing the distribution to install,
> sysinstall fails with a '/ disk full' error (ALT-F2 reveals that it was
> trying to copy /stand to /mnt/stand)
I suspect you've run into a known bug. Did you restart the installer at
all during the install process?
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-May/014465.html
> One more 'cosmetic'. I tried also installing on the slices created on a
> previous attempt (without forcing a newfs in disklabel), and sysinstall
> warned me that it was operating on a existing root filesystem, where it
> expected to find the necessary /dev entries: Is this message still valid
> now that /dev is a virtual filesystem?
Heh, I bumped into this only a couple of days ago, and was going to
submit a patch to fix it this weekend.
Gavin
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