From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 18:17:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7620E16A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:17:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sirius.firepipe.net (sirius.firepipe.net [69.13.116.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5770443D5D for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:17:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by sirius.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BC7C3180A5; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:15:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:15:58 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: stuart nichols Message-ID: <20040730181558.GN26534@sirius.firepipe.net> References: <200407301639.13753.matt@fruitsalad.org> <20040730145915.GJ26534@sirius.firepipe.net> <20040730101819.I64556@area51.capnet.state.tx.us> <20040730112237.Q64556@area51.capnet.state.tx.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040730112237.Q64556@area51.capnet.state.tx.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Will Andrews cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD AMD64 Current] SESNAP 0730 Re: Fwd: Re: Still can't get -current, was Re: getting -current??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:17:37 -0000 On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:02:10PM -0500, stuart nichols wrote: > I'm now using the 0730 build iso. The installer comes up with the release > name set to 5.2-CURRENT. I use the Custom line, make the whole drive a > FreeBSD partition, then label it with 6 partitions {/, /usr, /usr/local, > /var, /home, /export}. This is all how I do the i386 install, and how I > did the AMD64 5.2.1-RELEASE. > > I select ALL for the distributions and say Yes for the ports. > > I choose FTP for the media and under URL pick snapshots.se.freebsd.org. > I say No to IPv6 and Yes to DHCP. I type in a hostname and the rest is > DHCP supplied. There is a lookup done on snapshots.se.freebsd.org, and > then it returns me to the menu where I select Commit. > > The partition/label info gets written and the various partitions get > initialized. > > Then I get a message saying that the "5.2-CURRENT" distribution files > cannot be found on the server: "Would you like to try another FTP server?" > > I don't know what path the installer uses to find the release name, but > I've tried setting it in Options to various names, such as > 5.2-CURRENT-20040730-SESNAP, but it seems to me that 5.2-CURRENT, or some > generic -current name, would be the expected value. I've poked around on > the server but didn't see any likely candidate directory for the dist > files. > > What am I missing? What do I try next? What do you mean by "dist files"? The files it's supposed to be looking for are in {base,crypto,doc,games,...}. As far as I can tell the amd64 snapshot release dirs aren't missing anything the i386 ones have. Are you sure you are using snapshots.se.freebsd.org? I can't find any connections from *.state.tx.us in the logs. Regards, -- wca