From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 4 19:21:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0C116A41C for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 19:21:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: from cruzio.com (dsl3-63-249-85-132.cruzio.com [63.249.85.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8182A43D45 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 19:21:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: from mail.cruzio.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cruzio.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j64IOFMi002016 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:24:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucem@mail.cruzio.com) Received: (from brucem@localhost) by mail.cruzio.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j64IOFa6002015 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:24:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brucem) Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:24:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bruce R. Montague" Message-Id: <200507041824.j64IOFa6002015@mail.cruzio.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 5.4-RELEASE local ftp sysinstall (packages in wrong directory) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:21:53 -0000 Due to recent call for testing, I downloaded the 5.4-RELEASE iso's and did a clean local ftp install to an old machine. The 5.4 sysinstall program (run via the boot floppies from the CD) does not seem to be aware of the location of the packages on disc1.iso... Apologies if this has been covered somewhere; I haven't been following this list and can't find the exact problem mentioned. Problem: With the 5.4-RELEASE CD's, doing an install from a local ftp server, sysinstall attempts to access "5.4-RELEASE/packages/INDEX", instead of "packages/INDEX", resulting in sysinstall "Unable to get packages/INDEX" errors on packages such as X11. Attempted Kludge work around: copy CD to ftp mountpoint and create the missing symlink (ln -s ../packages packages). This eliminates access to INDEX problems, but results in "This is disc #0. Package _blah_ is on disc1 Would you like to switch discs now?" messages. Kludge solution #2. Ignore packages... More details: * Ran Sysinstall with "All", with "ports" collection selected. disc1 in /dev/acd0c mounted as /usr/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386 Installation proceeds, (accesses "5.4-RELEASE" under the mountpoint, as defaulted in Installer Options; dir "5.4-RELEASE" is in disc1.iso's root). * After installing the ports tree, the message: "Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media." This error occurs because the installer ftp is doing a: get pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.4-RELEASE/packages/INDEX It should be asking for: pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/packages/INDEX The "packages" directory (which contains INDEX) is located in the root of the CD, not under the "5.4-RELEASE" directory. (were there some e-mails somewhere recently about a missing file link on the CD's... ?) * These errors can be ignored although retrying gets tedious. Eventualy sysinstall proceeds after a message that it can't install at least packages for perl and X11... * This problem seems very similar to: Subject: Wrong directory (or symlink?) in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.3-BETA1/ http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=5423+0+archive/2004/freebsd-hubs/20040829.freebsd-hubs and also releated to: Subject: sysinstall new disc layout in 5.4 RELEASE http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=366255+0+archive/2005/freebsd-stable/20050515.freebsd-stable http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=479254+0+archive/2005/freebsd-stable/20050515.freebsd-stable and Subject: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-April/013903.html