From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 13 00:30:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA26719 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from karon.dynas.se (karon.dynas.se [192.71.43.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA26712 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host.domain by karon.dynas.se with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0u7zmt-000EUiC; Sat, 13 Apr 96 09:30:27 +0200 Received: by spirit.dynas.se (Smail3.1.28.1 #32) id m0u7zms-000JeVC; Sat, 13 Apr 96 09:30:26 +0200 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 09:30:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Gary Palmer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-ROM vs FTP Layout (Was: Intel Endeavor install problems (639K != 640K -> SIG 11)) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: >=20 > > Doug White wrote in message ID > > : > > > Now HOW IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CDROM LAYOUT SO WE CAN BUG THE HECK= OUT OF=20 > > > HIM TO FIX THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL? [intentional all caps] > >=20 > > Jordan, but the thing is that sysinstall (at least when I worked on > > it, back in 2.0.5) worked no matter if it was a CDROM used over FTP = or > > NFS, as it tried to go into the dists dir and recorded the fact that > > it didn't exist (if necessary) for later use... It looks like Jordan > > took this functionality out somewhere, possibly in trying to make ft= p > > install more robust (which is a never ending problem :( ) >=20 > I personally prefer to be able to mount the CD and install via FTP, NF= S,=20 > et al. If anything, rearrange ftp.freebsd.org. The CD MUST work; not= =20 > all of us have access to a CD-equipped Unix box and can build lndir tr= ees=20 > to move the appropriate files around, like using a MS-DOG box with nov= ell=20 > ftdp, or OS/2. :( =20 >=20 Ooops... Though I won't try to reinstall my home machine right now, it l= ooks like everything may be wokring just fine after all, if only one remember= s to change the FTP OnError action to "retry". Sysinstall will then not only retry to get the files, but retry with different pathnames (including "dists/%s"). This isn't really mentioned in the on-line help (I didn't = see it anywhere, until I looked in the code), and the default value is "abor= t". I can at least verify this by running sysinstall locally and getting fil= es from the local CD-ROM using FTP, and systinstall always aborts with a SI= G 11 after an FTP failure, it seems :-) =09=09Sorry for the inconvenience (don't want people to =09=09use caps at each other...), =09=09/Mikko Mikko Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi (mikko@dynas.se) DynaSoft, Dynamic Software AB