From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 17:47:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from baal.visi.com (baal.visi.com [209.98.98.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311041174D for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:47:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steveneu@visi.com) Received: from visi.com (nomad.dsl.visi.com [209.98.224.56]) by baal.visi.com (8.8.8/8.7.5) with ESMTP id TAA09182; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:47:14 -0600 (CST) Posted-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:47:14 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <36CB7124.8E0C5F10@visi.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:47:16 -0600 From: Steve Neuharth X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dan Mahoney Jr." Cc: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken /stand/sysinstall? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 2.2.7 is no longer available for download. You have to install 2.2.8 or 3.0. You could try using the 2.2.8 dirs... not sure of the implications. BTW the trailing directory tree name (like 2.2.8-stable) is configurable in somewhere in sysinstall... I forget where but I remember white text on black as opposed to blue/red. "Dan Mahoney Jr." wrote: > > Okay, this may sound dumb, but I'm running 2.2.7, and REALLY don't feel > like messing with what works for me (I've heard a number of horror stories > about 3.0/3.1...Maybe it's just the number...Should prolly be left out > like the 13th floor on buildings.) > > ANYway...I used to install packages via /stand/sysinstall, but for some > reason it can no longer find the symbolic links that used to reside on the > FTP servers. I've tried manually pointing it at > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-2.2.7 (you try > typing that like ten times), but it still can't find the directory it > wants. > > I've tried reading the manpages for sysinstall (it doesn't HAVE one), and > was wondering if anyone either knew some way to "trick" sysinstall into > thinking it was reading the directory it needs to (apparently > $ftpsite/$ftpdir/$dist/packages), where in this case it would at least > need to read packages-2.2.7. > > If anyone knows anything (or has the source for sysinstall that can be > slightly modified and hard-coded for this particular distribution and > server), it would be much appreciated. > > Thanks for all your time... > > -Dan Mahoney > > -- > > "Don't try to out-wierd me. I get stranger things than you free with my > breakfast cereal." > > -Button seen at I-CON XVII (and subsequently purchased) > > Dan Mahoney > Gushi on efnet IRC > ICQ:13735144 > (webpages TBA) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message