From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 29 18:22:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408CA16A41C for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 18:22:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpd@dpdtech.com) Received: from valiant.dpdtech.com (valiant.dpdtech.com [63.246.30.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CDB43D1F for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 18:22:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpd@dpdtech.com) Received: from adsl-69-109-221-126.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([69.109.221.126] helo=[192.168.1.10]) by valiant.dpdtech.com with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.41 (FreeBSD)) id 1DcSR7-0005yU-6E; Sun, 29 May 2005 13:22:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050529014005.GA11940@dragon.genyosha.net> References: <20050529014005.GA11940@dragon.genyosha.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <39BC3BAA-5FA5-4C28-B6B9-156D68DB6B0D@dpdtech.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "David P. Discher" Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 11:25:05 -0700 To: Steve Rikli X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 NFS install broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 18:22:58 -0000 Well, not broken, but its does not look like it was documented. I was just doing this yesterday, copied ISO #1 completely, then in cd#2 # cd /iso2/packages ; tar -cf - | tar -xvf - -C /nfsinstall/ packages The file packages/INDEX needs to be updated. I don't know how to create this, so I went the ftp servers, and grabbed the INDEX from the combined release. There is a PROBLEM WITH THIS INDEX file. There are TWO entries for perl in it. Perl 5.6.2 and 5.8.2 I do believe. The two CD ISOs only contained perl 5.8.2. Vi and delete the 5.6.2 line, and this seemed to work. (Don't quote me on exact version numbers.) I also did this, not sure if this is needed. # cd /nfsinstall; rm filename.txt # find . -type f | sed -e 's/^\.\///' | sort > filename.txt per section 3.4 btw - sort of related, I posted yesterday: "FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 - pxeboot hosting on em0 Intel 82540EM" Would love feedback on this. ----------------------------------------------------------------- David P. Discher * * * AIM: DavidDPD * ----------------------------------------------------------------- On May 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Steve Rikli wrote: > How does one create the NFS installation directory for FreeBSD-5.4 ? > > I.e. is it supposed to be as simple as dumping the entire contents > of CD#1 & CD#2 into a directory on an NFS server, and pointing > 'sysinstall' to it? > > I've been doing 4.x & 5.x NFS installs successfully with an NFS > server's repositories setup in that manner, but with FreeBSD-5.4 , > 'sysinstall' prompted for the next "disc", and I had no apparent > way of selecting a different media or different source. > > I'm thinking I must not be getting (parts of?) CD#2 into the right > place, and/or need to update a table-of-contents file, or something > equally simple. > > If there's a different/better way (e.g. not using CDs at all) to > build a FreeBSD-5.4 repository suitable for NFS installation purposes, > advice on that would also be welcome. > > The Handbook chapter on installations is pretty good, but it sort > of glosses over the details in the Advanced Installation (2.13.6.1) > section, and I suspect it might not be quite as simple for 5.4 . > > Thanks, > sr. > -- > || Steve Rikli ||| My group's mission statement > - || > || Systems Administrator ||| "You want *what*? By > *WHEN*?" || > || ||| - Simon > Burr, || > || sr@genyosha.net ||| in > alt.sysadmin.recovery || > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >