Bug 142335
| Summary: | Download of Release 8.0 LIVE is NOT a "live" from CD program. | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Diana Allen <Smokepole32> |
| Component: | misc | Assignee: | Mark Linimon <linimon> |
| Status: | Closed Overcome By Events | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
Diana Allen
2010-01-05 05:10:00 UTC
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-bugs This does not sound i386-specific. Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->brucec Take. The 'livefs' CD does run the installer (sysinstall) as a front-end, but instead of the files needed to install a system, it has a 'live' filesystem which can be accessed via the FixIt menu. That is, once you have a FixIt shell running you can run all the base system FreeBSD utilities from the CD. -- Bruce Cran ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: misc/142335: Download of Release 8.0 LIVE is NOT a "live" from CD program. Date: Wednesday 03 March 2010 From: Diana Allen <smokepole32@yahoo.com> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> The installer INSISTS on partitioning the HD BEFORE proceeding! THIS does NOT constitute an "acceptable" "live" CD program from MY point of view! ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: misc/142335: Download of Release 8.0 LIVE is NOT a "live" from CD program. Date: Thursday 04 March 2010 From: Diana Allen <smokepole32@yahoo.com> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Actually, I do not remember whether there was a "fix it" on the menu or not. I just know that there was NO information referring me to the "fix it" entry, and that starting at the top of the menu wanted to partition and install. Perhaps, you should CHANGE the program to provide "live" directly, and ONLY call the "installer" for installs! THIS is what ALL the other "live" programs do! When it would NOT run "live" I threw the download disc away since I did NOT want to do an install at that time, and therefore have no way to check it. (Note that I have over 150 different versions of Linux, going back at least 10 years, and did NOT need to keep something that was obviously NOT working as it should have, for whatever reason; INCLUDING LACK OF INSTRUCTIONS!) --- On Wed, 3/3/10, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: > From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> > Subject: Re: misc/142335: Download of Release 8.0 LIVE is NOT a "live" from CD program. > To: "Diana Allen" <smokepole32@yahoo.com> > Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 12:58 PM > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 15:46:57 > you wrote: > > The installer INSISTS on partitioning the HD BEFORE > proceeding! THIS does > > NOT constitute an "acceptable" "live" CD program > from MY point of view! > > I agree - the installer shouldn't be wanting to change the > disk at all in > livefs mode. Just to confirm, when the installer starts do > you scroll down to > "FixIt", hit enter and the disk partitioning page gets > displayed? > > -- > Bruce Cran Responsible Changed From-To: brucec->freebsd-sysinstall Back to the pool. For bugs matching the following criteria: Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01 Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags. Mail being skipped ^Triage: close as OBE. I'm sorry that this PR did not get addressed in a timely fashion. |
