Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:51:01 +0100 From: Nikola =?utf-8?B?UGF2bG92acSH?= <nzp@riseup.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall Message-ID: <20120303205101.GA3199@sputnjik.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <CABE=bRMwxrqhjQP2%2Bh==bVkkRaLch6HLp0tdz%2BQJOuk4nrSBoA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABE=bRMwxrqhjQP2%2Bh==bVkkRaLch6HLp0tdz%2BQJOuk4nrSBoA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:37:07AM +1030, David Walker wrote: > So I installed amd64 9.0 tonight and decided against installing "ports". > I'm at a point now where I'm thinking about adding it and I see sysinstall: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html > Looks easy. > > For some unknown reason sysinstall spits the following: > > Warning: The disc currently in the drive is either not a FreeBSD > disc or it is an older (pre 1.2.5) FreeBSD CD which does not have a > version number on it. Do you wish to use this disc anyway? > It's probably because sysinstall doesn't understand the new distribution format--everything is now in /usr/freebsd-dist/ neatly packed in single archives, instead of the old way in /X.Y-RELENG_TAG/ with floppy-friendly split archives. > Like any sane person who burned this CD a few hours previously on the > same machine from within FreeBSD and then installed from it shortly > afterwards I click "Yes" ... > > So that doesn't work. > I wonder what would have happened if I had elected to install "ports" > during the initial install ... If you did it the normal way with bsdinstall then I guess everything would install correctly. But anyway, you can use the other methods mentioned in the handbook. Doing it with # portsnap fetch extract seems the most straight forward way to me. -- If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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