Re: 7.0-CURRENT-200608-amd64 sysinstall bug?

From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson_at_ury.york.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:01:31 +0100
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
Received on Fri Aug 11 2006 - 13:01:52 UTC

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