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From: Oleg Pudeyev <oleg@bsdpower.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: bsdinstall cannot handle some or all partitions other than /
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>Number:         174473
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       bsdinstall(8): cannot handle some or all partitions other than /
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-sysinstall
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 16 08:50:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Dec 24 15:50:00 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Oleg Pudeyev
>Release:        9.1-release
>Organization:
>Environment:
Not installed yet
>Description:
Trying to install freebsd 9.1.

I have a rather standard partition layout comprising of:

/
/usr
/var
/tmp
/home

bsdinstall chokes somewhere between having / only and the above set.

This is the error I get if I specify the above partitions:

Extract Error

Error while extracting base.txz: Can't
set user=0/group=0 for var/emptyCan't
update time for var/empty

OK

Requesting / only does not produce it. I thought it was due to /var but omitting /var and leaving /, /usr, /tmp and /home produced the same error. Then I only left / and /usr and it still died with the same error, Is the only configuration supported a single partition?
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install 9.1 and specify the following set of partitions:

/
/usr

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: eadler 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Dec 16 15:27:49 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
fix synopsis and assign 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=174473 

From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathan.whitehorn@icecube.wisc.edu>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, oleg@bsdpower.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/174473: bsdinstall(8): cannot handle some or all partitions
 other than /
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:20:59 -0600

 Can you provide some more details here, for example what partition types
 you were using, their sizes, etc? I can't reproduce this locally and
 using multiple partitions definitely works in general.
 -Nathan
>Unformatted:
