>Number: 161051 >Category: bin >Synopsis: bsdinstall cannot install on existing partitions >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 27 01:40:05 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ben Kaduk >Release: 9-beta 2 >Organization: MIT SIPB >Environment: n/a >Description: Per my mail to -current of 16 September 2011, I had an old scratch box with 7.4 on it, that I wanted to try the installer out on. I figured I could just reuse the partitions for testing (even though this is in general risky, due to stale libraries/configuration files/etc.), but was unable to do so. The extracting stage died with an error about being unable to create /var/empty with appropriate permissions. >How-To-Repeat: Try to install 9-beta2 on existing partitions >Fix: Either the /var/empty errors could be worked around, or the installer should refuse to use existing partitions.
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