Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer issues

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:03:22PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:36:01AM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> > > On 08/02/11 04:41, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > > > I've been trying out 9.0-BETA1: it's a lot easier to install than 
> > > > previous releases with bsdinstall, but I spotted a few issues:
> > > 
> > > Good! Thanks for checking.
> > > 
> > > > Typo - "Resovler Configuration".
> > > > If I leave the resolver window for a while it gets corrupted with:
> > > >
> > > > Aug 2 10:31:23 dhclient[973]: Bogus domain search list 15: lan, .....
> > > 
> > > Interesting. It looks like DHCP doesn't like your local setup...
> > > 
> > > > In the documentation installation screen, it should say "At a 
> > > > minimum..." - the 'a' is missing. Also, there should perhaps be a 
> > > > semi-colon between "English version" and "this is the original".  The 
> > > > menu also doesn't appear to do anything once you select "OK".
> > > 
> > > The spelling fixes are easy to fix. The documentation issue is more 
> > > confusing. It should begin running pkg_add, after you press OK, assuming 
> > > you selected something. Do you have the installer log handy? It will be 
> > > in /tmp.
> > >
> > [...]
> > 
> > Hmm I think it's "default" PACKAGESITE env variable pointing on
> > non-existing
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/<arch>/packages-9-beta1/Latest/
> >
> 
> I'm wrong, I did an install and same behavior as Bruce.
> I looked in /tmp/bsdinstall_log:
> 
> Running installation step: docsintall
> pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/Latest/en-freebsd-doc.tbz' by URL
                                  ^^^^^^
I haven't looked at bsdinstall lately, but IIRC there's no dialog that
offers a mirror selection? It would be nice to select a nearby server.