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
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
According to Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au on Sat, 11/19/11 at 13:29:
Unfortunately that concentrates on creating a GPT layout, encouraging a
Linux-like single (plus a boot) partition - forget using dump/restore -
and says nothing much about installing over an existing setup with MBR
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:40:45AM -0500, William Bulley wrote:
According to Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au on Sat, 11/19/11 at 13:29:
Unfortunately that concentrates on creating a GPT layout, encouraging a
Linux-like single (plus a boot) partition - forget using dump/restore -
and
According to Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk on Tue, 11/22/11 at 13:36:
Can't help you with your bsdinstall woes but to upgrade from
8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE(currently RC2) branch you want to do a
csup(1)/buildworld cycle.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:56:23PM -0500, William Bulley wrote:
According to Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk on Tue, 11/22/11 at 13:36:
Can't help you with your bsdinstall woes but to upgrade from
8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE(currently RC2) branch you want to do a
csup(1)/buildworld cycle.
from William Bulley w...@umich.edu:
Possible, but unlikely. Plus I doubt that 'tar -tvf base.txz' without a
pipe having an xzcat(1) in front of the tar(1) command. Maybe there
is an xz option for tar(1) during extraction mode, but my tar(1) man
page doesn't list any, sigh... It does list
According to Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net on Sun, 11/20/11 at
05:46:
It looks like tar in extraction mode automatically recognizes xz
compression in the file to be extracted from.
Section from the man page for tar in FreeBSD 9.0-RC1:
-J, --xz
(c mode only)
On 19/11/2011 00:53, Edward Martinez wrote:
As the progress bar moved to the right toward 100% completion, a
window popped up telling me that it (bsdinstall) could not handle
the base.txz (BTW, what does the suffix .txz mean?) - it could
not uncompress it and said something about unable to
William Bulley w...@umich.edu wrote:
According to Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com on Fri, 11/18/11 at 21:02:
I think you have under sized /usr and the uncompress ran out of space
during the install. Start over again, wipe the disk clean (ie: delete
all slices)and re-allocate your slices
--As of November 19, 2011 8:14:56 AM +, Matthew Seaman is alleged to
have said:
On 19/11/2011 00:53, Edward Martinez wrote:
As the progress bar moved to the right toward 100% completion, a
window popped up telling me that it (bsdinstall) could not handle
the base.txz (BTW, what does the
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 389, Issue 8, Message: 6
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:08:22 -0500 William Bulley w...@umich.edu wrote:
According to Edward Martinez eam1edw...@gmail.com on Fri, 11/18/11 at
19:53:
Have you tried installing with ACPI disabled.
According to Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au on Sat, 11/19/11 at 13:29:
I doubt that's your problem, going by my experiences with BETA1 and
following the freebsd-current archives for a couple of months; others
have described similar problems installing over existing slices, and in
my mind
According to Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com on Sat, 11/19/11 at 10:08:
IIRC, the error message was out of inodes.
This means something was trying to put *lots* (where 'lots' is relative
number, depending on the size of the filesystem :) of little files on the
filesystem. You
According to Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net on Sat, 11/19/11 at 10:06:
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Just as a quick digression...
xz has only marginal improvements in compressed size over bzip2, and takes
a lot more cpu/memory resources to compress. In most cases, I'd say it's
the
According to Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk on Sat, 11/19/11
at 03:14:
xz(1) is the latest compression program around. It usually gets better
results than bzip2 so lots of usages are being switched to it. .txz is
a tar archive compressed with xz.
Thanks. Then it is so new
On 11/18/11 15:00, William Bulley wrote:
I had some User Interface issues with the Manual
disk partition screen,
I got interested and downloaded it to try myself. I installed 9.0 in
virtualbox using the guided option and it installed. just
wondering if you tried installing with guided
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:06:43 -0400,
Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net said:
D xz has only marginal improvements in compressed size over bzip2, and
D takes a lot more cpu/memory resources to compress. In most cases, I'd
D say it's the wrong choice for a compression format. However, the one
D place
According to Edward Martinez eam1edw...@gmail.com on Sat, 11/19/11 at 19:02:
I got interested and downloaded it to try myself. I installed 9.0 in
virtualbox using the guided option and it installed. just
wondering if you tried installing with guided option instead of
manual? Now I
On 19/11/2011 22:36, William Bulley wrote:
Possible, but unlikely. Plus I doubt that 'tar -tvf base.txz' without a
pipe having an xzcat(1) in front of the tar(1) command. Maybe there
is an xz option for tar(1) during extraction mode, but my tar(1) man
page doesn't list any, sigh... It does
On 18/11/2011 21:27, William Bulley wrote:
I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults
to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall.
This process gave me an error, but I'm not sure in which forum
to discuss this problem/error. Thanks in advance.
freesd-questions@
According to Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk on Fri, 11/18/11
at 17:41:
On 18/11/2011 21:27, William Bulley wrote:
I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults
to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall.
This process gave me an error, but I'm
On 11/18/11 15:00, William Bulley wrote:
According to Matthew Seamanm.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk on Fri, 11/18/11
at 17:41:
On 18/11/2011 21:27, William Bulley wrote:
I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults
to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall.
This
According to Edward Martinez eam1edw...@gmail.com on Fri, 11/18/11 at 19:53:
Have you tried installing with ACPI disabled.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-install-trouble.html#Q3.10.2.1.
this also may be of some help:
William Bulley wrote:
According to Edward Martinez eam1edw...@gmail.com on Fri, 11/18/11 at 19:53:
Have you tried installing with ACPI disabled.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-install-trouble.html#Q3.10.2.1.
this also may be of some help:
According to Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com on Fri, 11/18/11 at 21:02:
I think you have under sized /usr and the uncompress ran out of space
during the install. Start over again, wipe the disk clean (ie: delete
all slices)and re-allocate your slices with larger space allocations.
Thanks.
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