Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 09:30:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-ROM vs FTP Layout (Was: Intel Endeavor install problems (639K != 640K -> SIG 11)) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960413091721.12191A-100000@spirit.dynas.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960412145043.19145A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: >=20 > > Doug White wrote in message ID > > <Pine.BSF.3.91.960412115019.17713Q-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.e= du>: > > > Now HOW IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CDROM LAYOUT SO WE CAN BUG THE HECK= OUT OF=20 > > > HIM TO FIX THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL? [intentional all caps] > >=20 > > Jordan, but the thing is that sysinstall (at least when I worked on > > it, back in 2.0.5) worked no matter if it was a CDROM used over FTP = or > > NFS, as it tried to go into the dists dir and recorded the fact that > > it didn't exist (if necessary) for later use... It looks like Jordan > > took this functionality out somewhere, possibly in trying to make ft= p > > install more robust (which is a never ending problem :( ) >=20 > I personally prefer to be able to mount the CD and install via FTP, NF= S,=20 > et al. If anything, rearrange ftp.freebsd.org. The CD MUST work; not= =20 > all of us have access to a CD-equipped Unix box and can build lndir tr= ees=20 > to move the appropriate files around, like using a MS-DOG box with nov= ell=20 > ftdp, or OS/2. :( =20 >=20 Ooops... Though I won't try to reinstall my home machine right now, it l= ooks like everything may be wokring just fine after all, if only one remember= s to change the FTP OnError action to "retry". Sysinstall will then not only retry to get the files, but retry with different pathnames (including "dists/%s"). This isn't really mentioned in the on-line help (I didn't = see it anywhere, until I looked in the code), and the default value is "abor= t". I can at least verify this by running sysinstall locally and getting fil= es from the local CD-ROM using FTP, and systinstall always aborts with a SI= G 11 after an FTP failure, it seems :-) =09=09Sorry for the inconvenience (don't want people to =09=09use caps at each other...), =09=09/Mikko Mikko Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi (mikko@dynas.se) <Insert cheesy quo= te here> DynaSoft, Dynamic Software AB
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