Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD 7.0-Beta3 in a SunBlade 100 (mem: 512MB, cpu: 500MHz), but the installation process stalls at the "Located INDEX, now reading package data from it..." screen. Running top in another console shows that CPU consumption at that screen goes slowly increasingly from a few percent to 99%. It looks like if a non-linear cost algorithm was used to process the index. I have tried to install a couple of times with different package configuration (mostly all and x-user) with the same result. Cheers, - Salva (I had already sent this bug report to the "bugs" mailing list)
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-sparc64->kensmith Ken maintains sysinstall ;)
State Changed From-To: open->patched Would you mind giving this another try with 7.0-RC1? I'm actually a little surprised the install stalled on sparc64, on the other architectures it died due to a signal. There are two other bugs related to installing packages that were not part of 7.0-RC1 but the bug related to parsing the INDEX file was part of 7.0-RC1. Thanks.
State Changed From-To: patched->closed I think this was part of the "general issues" sysinstall had that I fixed as we moved into the RCs. No response from the user about whether or not those fixes solved his problem but testing with the package sets on the ISOs made during the RCs have worked.