On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:27 AM, William Bulley <w...@umich.edu> wrote: > According to Ian Smith <smi...@nimnet.asn.au> on Tue, 11/22/11 at 23:48: >> >> Sorry William, this arrived not long after I crashed, 18-hour odd time >> difference .. I've since seen Frank Shute advise how to csup from 8.2-S >> to RELENG_9_0 and in your case that's likely the easiest way to go. > > Sorry about the time difference - not much I can do about that... :-) > >> As you see, you got exactly the same error I got with BETA1, and for the >> same reason - bsdinstall isn't running newfs on your existing partitions >> before trying to extract the distribution. I thought that was going to >> be fixed before release, but clearly not yet. It really needs the newfs >> toggle option of sysinstall/sade before it'll be useful as sysinstall. >> >> The docs are very much a work in progress. Even sysinstall requires you >> to at least enter the mountpoints for your existing partitions (within a >> slice); they're needed for install and of course to build /etc/fstab. >> >> In my case, wanting to preserve /home, seems I'll have to NOT supply a >> mountpoint for that partition in order for it to be left alone, and then >> add it into fstab afterwards, probably having to merge any newly created >> user there from /usr/home, revert the symlink etc. Messy. >> >> Did you try running sysinstall (or sade), just to do the slicing + >> partitioning / newfs'ing from Live CD mode, only on DVD1 I guess? >> >> In your case I think a source upgrade and building is probably the way >> to go. In my case, my 8.2 is on another slice (s4), but I want 9.0 on >> s2, over an existing 7.4-RELEASE, because that slice has enough space >> for a decent ongoing 9.x system, and because I'd hoped to contribute to >> debugging bsdinstall - but then I moved and had no net access for nearly >> a month. Still, I'm persisting with that plan and I'll keep hassling >> until this regression in functionality is fixed, for 9.1 now I guess. > > The third time is the charm! > > I was successful (and am now running 9.0-PRERELEASE!) with the upgrade > of this older Dell laptop. The first (failed attempt) was from 8.2-S > to 9.x anything (turned out to be RC1 at the time). This was a source > upgrade (csup/buildworld/installworld) but failed during the compilation > of the kernel. > > At this point I decided to just grab the DVD1 and install over my 8.2-S > since I was not invested in anything on the disk (although I had csup'd > the ports tree and was running Xorg successfully at that point). The > DVD1 ISO install of 9.0-RC1 was unsuccessful due to the oddness of the > bsdinstall program as you describe above. > > At about this time RC1 was transitioning to RC2, so I decided to grab the > bootonly RC2 ISO and yesterday ran into the same bsdinstall issues. So > I was forced to try the source upgrade again, hoping that by this time > the kernel compilation problem had been fixed. > > Well, evidently it was, because the csup/buildworld/installworld method > worked like a charm and I am now happily running 9.0-PRERELEASE. Thanks > for all the replies and suggestions. I am going to try to avoid using > bsdinstall like the plague and I advise others to do likewise, at least > until it becomes more mature. It seems to me that the inclusion of the > bsdinstall program as the default installer in 9.0 is illadvised at best. > Amen. I share that opinion. I have never had problems or even been confused with the old installer and have used it since the beginning. I have heard that pcBSD has a great new graphic installer and thought it was going to be included in releng_9 but it seems as though it isn't. I understand that you can use it for FreeBSD through the pcBSD dvd but haven't looked at it. If anyone likes it and has a link to some basic docs, it would be great if you would share them. If not, I personally prefer the old one as an option, if possible.
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