i386/95165: 6.1 Beta 4 ISO (386) fails upgrade and destroys old install

[Christoph Weber-Fahr]

>Number:         95165
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       6.1 Beta 4 ISO (386) fails upgrade and destroys old install
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 31 20:00:31 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christoph Weber-Fahr
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.1 beta4
>Organization:
Arcor AG
>Environment:
no environment string available - system is unusable until 
completely reinstalled (or possibly manually repaired.)

HW is a HP Proliant DL380 G3

>Description:
	The upgrade function fails to complete and renders the system 
	unusable.
	I tried to binary ugrade a 4.11-RELEASE-p9 system which was 
	working fine.
	Precise problem is that is complains about a write error with
	the base install set. Looking at F2 reveals that the "error" is 
	a "permission denied" while trying to unpack/move /stand/gunzip
	One thing I noted is that the install set uses leading "/" - 	
	maybe it tries to overwrite the cd or the mfs instead of writing to 
	the target disk.

	whatever you do the base distribution install is aborted here and 
	sysinstall continues with the bin distribution.

	later it retries with the same problem. After reboot the system
	is unusable.

	trying the same with the 5.4-RELEASE cd works just fine.

	Another issue: apparently the beta4 ISOs do not conatain any 
	packages. for X.org sysinstall complains about a missing 
	index file.
		
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