[PC-BSD Testing] bug#17 - still cannot untar with /usr partition

[Kris Moore]

Jeff,

I just did a test install here with the Nov 4 snapshot. Here's the 
layout I used:

/ 1 GB
/SWAP 3GB
/var 1GB
/var/tmp 3GB
/usr 20GB

The install worked just fine, so I'm not sure it's an issue with the 
partitioning. Are you sure we aren't seeing some read / write errors 
from the CD to HD?

Try this, do the install, and right-click on the background to open up a 
"xterm" session. Next do a "# tail /var/log/messages" are there any 
errors recorded in there?

-- 

Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
http://www.pcbsd.com


Jeff Colter wrote:
> I was using "tar' cavalierly I guess.
> 
> The error was "image extraction failure" or something like that.
> 
> I'll try it again in about 10 hours with the partitions you suggested and
> record the exact error message.
> 
> But it seems as if no matter what I use for partition sizes it just doesn't
> like /usr on a separate partition at all.
> 
> ....Jeff
> 
> 
> On 11/6/07, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for trying this out. Is it failing with a "tar extraction" error
>> at the end of the process? I'm going to roll a new ISO in the next day
>> or so for testing to see if we can track this down. Right now the code
>> doesn't check for Tar errors, only lzma extract issues.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Kris Moore
>> PC-BSD Software
>> http://www.pcbsd.com
>>
>>
>> Jeff Colter wrote:
>>> Hi Kris,
>>>
>>> I can try that later today, but in the meantime I tried this on 1.4RC:
>>>
>>> / 10000MB /SWAP 6000MB /var 50000MB /var/tmp 3000MB /usr 160000
>>>
>>> unused: 9394
>>>
>>> That failed also.
>>>
>>> ....Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/6/07, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.com> wrote:
>>>> Jeff,
>>>>
>>>> I did implement this fix into SVN, but I'm wondering if you are running
>>>> into something different. This doesn't look like an extract error,
>>>> rather it appears that the partitions you created didn't get created
>>>> that way. Can you try this?
>>>>
>>>> / 1GB
>>>> /swap 6GB
>>>> /var 50GB
>>>> /usr remainder of disk; ~180GB
>>>>
>>>> Does this setup work?
>>>>
>>>> Also, just a tip, you don't really need to use a 6GB swap, even if you
>>>> only use 512MB, PC-BSD will add more on the fly as necessary.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Kris Moore
>>>> PC-BSD Software
>>>> http://www.pcbsd.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Colter wrote:
>>>>> Well, I noticed that bug 17 was fixed and closed so I downloaded the
>>>> latest
>>>>> Nov4 ISO and tried it assuming that this fix was implemented in this
>>>>> version, but the problem remains - CD extraction error after install.
>>>>> ARGGHHH!
>>>>>
>>>>> And I had just recently spent an entire week manually installing
>> pretty
>>>> much
>>>>> everything PCBSD offers, under the impression that this bug wouldn't
>> get
>>>>> fixed until 1.5.
>>>>>
>>>>> I selected the whole disk and setup the partitions this way:
>>>>>
>>>>> / 128MB
>>>>> /swap 6GB
>>>>> /var 50GB
>>>>> /var/tmp 3GB
>>>>> /usr remainder of disk; ~180GB
>>>>>
>>>>> Was this bug fix actually implemented in this latest ISO?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or is there something else going wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> I ended up with this partition that worked:
>>>>>
>>>>> / 179394MB
>>>>> /SWAP 6000MB
>>>>> /var 50000MB
>>>>> /var/tmp 3000MB
>>>>>
>>>>> If this is fixed in a later release will I be able to add the /usr
>>>> partition
>>>>> then or will I have to reinstall?
>>>>>
>>>>> Tnx, JeffWell, I noticed that bug 17 was fixed and closed so I
>>>> downloaded
>>>>> the latest Nov4 ISO and tried it assuming that this fix was
>> implemented
>>>> in
>>>>> this version, but the problem remains - CD extraction error after
>>>> install.
>>>>> ARGGHHH!
>>>>>
>>>>> And I had just recently spent an entire week manually installing
>> pretty
>>>> much
>>>>> everything PCBSD offers, under the impression that this bug wouldn't
>> get
>>>>> fixed until 1.5.
>>>>>
>>>>> I selected the whole disk and setup the partitions this way:
>>>>>
>>>>> / 128MB
>>>>> /swap 6GB
>>>>> /var 50GB
>>>>> /var/tmp 3GB
>>>>> /usr remainder of disk; ~180GB
>>>>>
>>>>> Was this bug fix actually implemented in this latest ISO?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or is there something else going wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> I ended up with this partition that worked:
>>>>>
>>>>> / 179394MB
>>>>> /SWAP 6000MB
>>>>> /var 50000MB
>>>>> /var/tmp 3000MB
>>>>>
>>>>> If this is fixed in a later release will I be able to add the /usr
>>>> partition
>>>>> then or will I have to reinstall?
>>>>>
>>>>> Tnx, Jeff
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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