Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:48:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: 4.*-stable sysinstall ... custom dist problems Message-ID: <200007090548.AAA60599@aurora.sol.net>
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I'm having sysinstall problems. I used to be able to do this, and I can't seem to anymore. I was wondering if anyone could verify my theory. For a long time, I've rolled custom distributions and .tar.gz'd them, put them into bin.aa, did a cksum and patched bin.inf, and simply used sysinstall to pop them onto a system. I seem to be unable to get this to work, now, under 4.0. It's worse because I'm trying to do it on a laptop, and every iteration of try-something-else takes quite a bit of typing to set up (plus forgotten things that scrap a given boot). I thought it was just my laptop, until I decided to see if it would go and install a standard load - and it did. Pieces = 1 cksum.aa = 1770647625 465713122 is what I'm trying to load. I experimented a bit and it seems to me that maybe there's about a 300K chunk size limit now, which really sucks because splitting that distro up with split ends up with "too many pieces". Is there, in fact, a chunk size limit now? Obviously I can work around this, but it's inconvenient and unfortunate if so. :-/ Thanks for any hints, -- ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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