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From: anthony@pinkworks.com
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Subject: Novice Installation gets confused if you fail an restart
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>Number:         5002
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Novice Installation gets confused if you fail an restart
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 10 16:10:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Fri Feb 13 05:56:45 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:  Fri Feb 13 05:58:24 PST 1998
>Originator:     Anthony J Wright
>Release:        2.2.5
>Organization:
Pinkworks Ltd
>Environment:
>Description:
If you start a 'Novice' installation, and then for some reason quit, if
you try and re-run the 'Novice' installation it lets to define the boot
partitions, and the boot manager, but then promptly returns back to the
main menu (no labeling, no distributions, no media...). This is
extremely disconcerting to a novice user who frequently makes mistakes
during installation/configuration.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create a 2.2.5 installation disk.
Boot from it.
Do a 'Novice installation'
At the Distribution menu hit Cancel
Do a 'Novice installation' again
You don't get any further that the 'disk partioning' part of the p
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: MIHIRA "Sanpei" Yoshiro <sanpei@yy.ics.keio.ac.jp>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, anthony@pinkworks.com
Cc:  Subject: Re: misc/5002: Novice Installation gets confused if you fail an restart
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 20:00:06 +0900

   I think this problem is solved and closed as below.
 
 in CVS repository:
     src/release/sysinstall/disks.c 1.70.2.23 for releng_2_2
                                    1.95      for FreeBSD-current
 
 Log:
     Change a bogus failure return to the more proper success return.
 
 ----
 Yoshiro MIHIRA
 sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Fri Feb 13 05:56:45 PST 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
As noted by sanpei@yy.ics.keio.ac.jp in previous attachment, this 
PR can indeed be closed.  Thank you! 
>Unformatted:
