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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:51:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@wxs.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD alpha mailing list <alpha@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Prpblems installing 4.7-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021024145147.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0210242037130.357-100000@yokozuna.bsd>

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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.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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