From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 11:51:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F77437B404 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6A143E75 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 32261 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2002 18:51:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 24 Oct 2002 18:51:51 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9OIphn5071888; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:51:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:51:47 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Marco Beishuizen Subject: RE: Prpblems installing 4.7-RELEASE Cc: FreeBSD alpha mailing list Cc: FreeBSD alpha mailing list , FreeBSD questions mailing list Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Oct-2002 Marco Beishuizen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install 4.7-RELEASE from an FTP-server. When most of the > system is installed (after when the ports are installed in /usr), > sysinstall suddenly says that it cannot find the INDEX-file from the > selected media type, when it tries to install the packages. Sysinstall > quits and returns to the main menu. After that I tried to "perform any > pending extract actions" (in Custom Installation Options), but then it > says it cannot resolve ftp.freebsd.org, but a moment before it worked > fine! > > Does anyone knows how to install from here? Ok, I guess when the alpha 4.7 packages were uploaded, no one put the packages symlink in the 4.7 release directory. I've just fixed it on ftp-master and it should propagate out to other ftp servers in a few hours. This should fix the problem with no INDEX file. Sorry for the delay. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message