Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 12:33:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>, jkh@freebsd.org Cc: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Another 2.1.7 upgrade & no bin dist Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970330123034.242P-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199703292016.NAA22875@seagull.rtd.com>
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On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Don Yuniskis wrote: > > This time I used the boot.flp that was on the installation CD, > > rather than using the one from ftp.freebsd.org, as I did last week. > > [snip] > > I've encountered the same set of problems trying a virgin install > from the 2.1.7 CD-ROM. > > > The actual steps I went through are listed at the end, but more > > interesting are the DEBUG messages from VTY2. Below are the last > > few lines from VTY2, the buffer only goes back so far. I copied > > these by hand and believe they are accurate: > > [snip] > > > DEBUG: distExtract: parent: (none), me: bin > > DEBUG: Request for bin/bin.inf from CDROM > > DEBUG: Parsing attributes file for distribution bin > > DEBUG: Parse config: Invalid character 'P' at line 0 > > DEBUG: Finished parsing 0 attributes > > DEBUG: Trying to match attribute `pieces' > > DEBUG: Request for catpages/catpages.inf from CDROM > > DEBUG: Request for catpages/catpages.tgz from CDROM > > DEBUG: switching back to VTY1 > > Same here. I've been too busy to track this down since then. Also, > can someone clarify whether the vty which is selected by ALT-F1 is > VTY1 (as the debug messages indicate) *or* vty0??? I've pointed > this out in previous releases and never got a definitive answer... Hm, unusual. It's having trouble parsing the bin.inf file. It looks okay on the 2.1.7 CD -- it matches the one on the 2.1.6 CD pretty closely. Make sure that the /cdrom/bin/bin.inf file looks okay, it should look like this (the first few lines): Pieces = 66 cksum.aa = 2839795898 240640 cksum.ab = 1001490224 240640 cksum.ac = 1219610413 240640 cksum.ad = 3262945178 240640 cksum.ae = 2219495727 240640 cksum.af = 716958364 240640 cksum.ag = 99084927 240640 cksum.ah = 3415542272 240640 cksum.ai = 986474035 240640 cksum.aj = 328651426 240640 cksum.ak = 1766185867 240640 cksum.al = 2016018304 240640 cksum.am = 4246482 240640 cksum.an = 3765167929 240640 cksum.ao = 149809225 240640 cksum.ap = 2184198754 240640 cksum.aq = 3463024512 240640 cksum.ar = 133209913 240640 cksum.as = 3255017845 240640 cksum.at = 2581546503 240640 cksum.au = 3589425913 240640 cksum.av = 3314109247 240640 I wonder if someone broke sysinstall at the last second, so it's looking for 'pieces' and not 'Pieces'. I'll forward this on to jordan... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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