From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 21:11:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from acetylene.vapornet.net (acetylene.vapornet.net [209.100.218.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314F410E97 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:11:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danm@DanMahoney.com) Received: from localhost (danm@localhost) by acetylene.vapornet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1/VaporServer 1.4) with ESMTP id XAA17038 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:11:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope from: danm@DanMahoney.com) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:11:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Mahoney Jr." X-Sender: danm@acetylene.vapornet.net To: freeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Broken /stand/sysinstall? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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