From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 20:51:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99587106566B for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 20:51:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nzp@riseup.net) Received: from mx1.riseup.net (mx1.riseup.net [204.13.164.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AEC18FC0C for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 20:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fulvetta.riseup.net (fulvetta-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.riseup.net", Issuer "Gandi Standard SSL CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 408F551A0D for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:51:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: nzp@fulvetta.riseup.net) with ESMTPSA id 0ECFD298 Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:51:01 +0100 From: Nikola =?utf-8?B?UGF2bG92acSH?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120303205101.GA3199@sputnjik.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at mx1 X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: sysinstall 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: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:51:13 -0000 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