Re: 7.0 BETA1.5 initial findings...

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)
- beta install CDs (disc1) are missing all the packages and the fixit
live system (at least the current one does).

_______________________________________________
freebsd-current@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx"

Relevant Pages

  • Re: FC3 disc2 and 3 Media Check Fail md5sum is correct
    ... >i been trying to install for weeks. ... I downloaded FC3 direct from the fedora ... Disc1 failed Media Check. ... I burned another CD with the Disc1 .iso file, ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: 7.0 BETA1.5 initial findings...
    ... then the process merrily fails at trying to install ... to try and install again, putting DISC1 in the drive. ... the CD is replaced before the start of the install distribution it would ...
    (freebsd-current)
  • Re: RELEASE discs & ISO images (for future)
    ... It can be used if you want to install from the network. ... so I don't need disc1 for livefs. ... There is also another idea to above: compress parts of livefs and/or docs ...
    (freebsd-current)
  • Re: 7.0 BETA1.5 initial findings...
    ... with a CD-ONLY install. ... This is on an Intel quad-core with 2G of memory, ... putting DISC1 in the drive. ... sure how to get the X11 packages installed from a CD-only install. ...
    (freebsd-current)
  • Re: Installing FreeBSD - Lots of questions
    ... install FreeBSD on an extra hard drive I have lying around. ... There are some extra packages which many people find useful, but did not fit to a single CD due to space restrictions. ... So, you can install a complete and working FreeBSD system, including a graphical desktop, having only disc1. ...
    (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc)