Yeah, after all it's pretty simple. The "Restart" thing in sysinstall is a gross hack and doesn't really work.
You should have mentionned the restart issue in the beginning though,
it would have clarified a lot of things. :)
Maybe you could open a pr about this?
A.
On Fri Aug 16, 2002 at 10:40:37PM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote:
> Antoine Beaupre wrote:
>
> >FWIW, I've had such problems with restarted sysinstalls. In fact, a
> >lot of the recent uses I had of sysinstall ended up with such an error.
> >
> >I think it is due to sysinstall not correctly mounting the configured
> >file systems. The behavior is quite erratic and i haven't been able to
> >pinpoint the exact problem but restarting the install, reformating the
> >partitions works usually ok.
>
> It looks like this is exactly what was happening.
>
> Everytime I tried to install, the DNS lookup on ftp.uk.freebsd.org would
> timeout the first time round (a seperate problem), and I needed to
> restart the installation each time. After going through the whole
> process several times, the DNS lookup worked first time round and the
> installation went without issue.
>
> It looks like sysinstall does get confused when asked to restart an
> installation.
>
> Many thanks to all who helped out.
>
> Andrew.
>
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