troubles with 9.0 beta2 installer

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Aug 30, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Oleg Ginzburg wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Some trouble in FreeBSD 9.0-beta2 Installer:
> 
> a) Infinity loop of Dialog in Network Configuration stage when static IP 
> selected without default gw:
> 
> How to reproduce:
> 
> Would you like to configure IPv4 for this interface - (set Y)
> Would you like to use DHCP to configure this interface - (set N)
> IP Address: (set 10.0.0.1 for example)
> Subnet Mask: (set 255.255.255.0 for example)
> Default Router: (leave blank)
> 
> - After this, installer teleport to select interfaces dialog silenty

Can you try:
http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20110831-01-bsdinstall-netconfig.diff

If you do not want to re-build a new ISO image you can break to the console
mount -t unionfs /tmp /usr/libexec/bsdinstall
and patch the files in the latter directory and then restart bsdinstall.

/bz

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