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. > -- Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein
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