From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 17 22:09:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918E416A417 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:09:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A87913C455 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:09:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id y2so995890uge for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:09:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=E7EZ3hfF13OoDv7nhI8SmmMZNTkp952HeDwxlO1Gqw4=; b=OcAWSgekAZljtg3StEe4tm2gs4b2DBybvlpFxYFDED6uGu6OKU1l9dAa48MDFP79h210+qN6s4l8C84P4Pa2Pzwbja8LVlSRwLzDKtVkSMwZYakzO6K5VOj8d7xwVTkO4qMlr7t9KFllZ9CZePgjD3EoBMFV00XsmW51DxLi0pY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=t1T68yiXDPYBu6FnmhCFEwGUJ9lZ6LdFBW8uEjFETicLlIrdlbFbQ7yH4ExYX9wZPoHWxxCmFWCJ+0fpKHhK+rVBBzRuXgshNCqjPgk2Q8zaBFZ9e+SB+fT+asCp0AJh9zrthJFF/pNyIlclaHy2UY4Z8kwl5qugL19CFaSqpyE= Received: by 10.142.213.9 with SMTP id l9mr856939wfg.1195335840302; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:44:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.16.20 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:44:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47d0403c0711171344u383c0cbbwcb6b00f81c84a08e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:44:00 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Infinite loop in menus in sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:09:57 -0000 Hi all, I finally broke down and pulled out the 7.0-beta2 iso for my dell inspiron 8500, but when I was at the part of the installation procedure to install the ports collection, it comes up with the message: Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media. This may be because the packages collection is not available on the distribution media you've chose, most likely an FTP site without the packages collection mirrored. Please verify that your media, or your path to the media, is correct and try again. [OK] It is true that I am installing over ftp from ftp5.freebsd.org (which is only about five blocks away in the real world!), and it certainly seems to not have a 7-INDEX floating around, but that's not the main issue. When I select ``OK'', it seems to try again, and pops up the same message. It would be nice to have an option to back up in the menus and change something; at the moment, I broke to vt4 and installed the perl5.8 port so that I can build my own index file, but I don't know if this will break me out of my menu loop. No time to investigate and patch at the moment, as I'm trying to get the ppc beta iso to boot on the machine I'm typing this on, as I said I would test a couple things (I said this several months ago, and only rebooted once since then). Anyone else see this behavior? -Ben Kaduk