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From: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@gracie.lbl.gov>
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Subject: 4.10-BETA fails to install from NFS
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>Number:         65546
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [sysinstall] 4.10-BETA fails to install from NFS
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    linimon
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 14 13:10:18 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jan 28 01:36:57 UTC 2008
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jan 28 01:36:57 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Jin Guojun (DSD staff)
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.10-BETA
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 4.10-BETA #1: Wed Feb 11 14:33:03 PST 2004


	FreeBSD 4.10-BETA
>Description:
	4.10-BETA installation floppies failed to install system.
	Everything is mounted from a FreeBSD server, but installation
	failed at update /var/db/mounttab:

	Press F2-key to see:

		mount_nfs: failed to update /var/db/mounttab

	Also, at this point, installation loops forever in following
	sequences:
	...... Do you want to retry
	YES                  NO

	If answering YES, nothing happens (keeping loop)
	If answer NO, it says:
		 doc/doc.aa not found
		press enter or space
	both ENTER and SPACE key will invoke umount, which failed
	at:
		umount_nfs: failed to update /var/db/mounttab
		umount_nfs: failed to update /var/db/mounttab
		umount_nfs: failed to update /var/db/mounttab
		umount_nfs: failed to update /var/db/mounttab
	and loops forever.
	This should have either retry or start over again,
	so user can choice start over to use FTP for installation.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa 
Responsible-Changed-By: kris 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Apr 16 01:47:28 PDT 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Assign to QA team for analysis 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=65546 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jan 25 21:48:45 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
It is quite some time since this PR was filed.  Does the problem still 
recur with modern versions of FreeBSD? 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->linimon 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Jan 25 21:48:45 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
track. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=65546 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 28 01:36:41 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
OBE.  Thanks for the response. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=65546 
>Unformatted:
