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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:08:58 +0200
From:      Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help: FreeBSD 4.3 to 4.5 upgrade problem using sysinstall script
Message-ID:  <20020404180858.GB5119@pc5.abc>
In-Reply-To: <001001c1dc02$11f15b00$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH>
References:  <001001c1dc02$11f15b00$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH>

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* Koroush Saraf <koroush.saraf@lmco.com> [2002-04-04 09:56:39 -0800]:
> Hi All,
> I would like to upgrade a bunch of FreeBSD4.3 computers to FreeBSD 4.5.
> Following the FreeBSD handbook I have setup a computer as an ftp server to
> serve the contents of the CD4_5_1 as the root for anonymous FTP.
> I like to be able to write a script to tell sysinstall to simply upgrade all
> the computers. However, before I attempted to write the script I decided to
> just try the interactive setup using the /stand/sysinstall on one of the
> computers that needs the upgrade.
[...]
> Howevever the problem is that it comes back and gives the following error:
> ? Warning: Can't find the `4.3-RELEASE' distribution on this ?
> ? FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for ?
> ? the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options ?
> ? menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what's ?
> ? available on bsdcon (or set to "any"). ?
> ? ?
> ? Would you like to select another FTP server?
> 
> Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong and also tell me how to
> script this?

put the cd in a directory named "4.3-RELEASE", sysinstall is looking
for such a directory on the ftp-server

Nicolas

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