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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 12:59:19 GMT
From: Soren Ragsdale <soren@tor.redheel.com>
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Subject: sysinstall installed over existing system instead of new drive
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>Number:         4082
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall installed over existing system instead of new drive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    jkh
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 13 13:10:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Tue Sep 2 03:10:28 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:  Tue Sep  2 03:11:45 PDT 1997
>Originator:     Soren Ragsdale
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

not applicable: not a hardware problem.

>Description:

I got a new scsi hard drive and wanted to install a new version of freebsd on 
it.  I booted my computer using the old hard drive and used /stand/sysinstall to 
select the new drive, partition it, and install a new distribution on it.  I 
went away and worked on other things, and only noticed a problem when I 
telnetted back in from another system and discovered that I couldn't log in.  
Turns out the install, even though I'd selected the new drive, was going to the 
OLD drive.  The installer seems to assume that any existing file system with 
/var, /usr and / MUST be the one that it should put things onto.

	

>How-To-Repeat:

	



>Fix:
	
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->jkh 
Responsible-Changed-By: gpalmer 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jul 14 15:48:13 PDT 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Mis-filed PR. JKH is Mr Sysinstall 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 2 03:10:28 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
This sounds like a misunderstanding - the user forgot to also 
set "Install root" in the options screen, something you need to 
do for the somewhat trickier "install on this disk, please" 
case. 
>Unformatted:
