Re: 7.0 BETA1.5 initial findings...

On October 31, 2007 05:44 am Ivan Voras wrote:
> Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> > Just wanted to report some of my results with installing
> > the BETA1.5 CDs.... with a CD-ONLY install.
> >
> > This is on an Intel quad-core with 2G of memory, and 300G SATA
> > drive and older ATAPI DVD drive (Intel DG33BU motherboard.)
> >
> > First; after you partition & label and choose your distributions;
> > it's time to remove the "BOOTONLY" CD and place DISC1 in the
> > drive.  There's nothing that tells you this.. if you don't
> > do this, then the process merrily fails at trying to install
> > everything.. twice over.   After that, you have an opportunity
> > to try and install again, putting DISC1 in the drive.  I'd
> > suggest a little box saying "remove the BOOTONLY CD, insert DISC1
> > and press OK" when it's time to start installing the distributions.
> >
> > Second - if you choose the X11 packages in the distributions;
> > they don't work.  The install process complains that it
> > can't find packages/INDEX on either DISC1 or DISK2.  I'm not
> > sure how to get the X11 packages installed from a CD-only install.
>
> Yes, you are right. These things are "idiosyncratic" for FreeBSD and
> sysinstall:
>
> - "bootonly" really means that you can't do anything with it except
> boot the kernel (you need disc1 to install it, it has everything on it)

And install via one of the network options.

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