Date: 13 May 2005 13:56:55 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Bill Schoolcraft <runfreebsd@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 package install woes.... :( Message-ID: <44oebf57rs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050512172352.34470.qmail@web52502.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050512172352.34470.qmail@web52502.mail.yahoo.com>
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Bill Schoolcraft <runfreebsd@yahoo.com> writes: > So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full > iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them > in loopback and offering the two ISO images up via > /stand/sysinstall as a source for packages. I cannot seem to > get the new "mdconfig" to mount the iso's. It's probably easier to just copy the packages off of there and use pkg_add rather than sysinstall. But it should be fine either way. > > Here is the command I'm using. > > (first made mount points of /mnt/loop1 and /mnt/loop2) > > ###################################################### > > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -u 1 > > mount /dev/md1 /mnt/loop1 > mount: /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1: incorrect super block You forgot the "-t cd9660" option to mount. If you leave that out, mount will try to treat the filesystem as UFS. > So the deeper I dig myself into this hole the more I ask myself > how can I just choose all my optional binary packages to install > from the "post install" menu and just have FreeBSD-5.4 have me > install "disk-1" once and "disk-2" once and all my package > choices are done. A little tricky, but someone could write code to do that. It would probably require a bit of intelligence up front, to make sure that nothing on Disc 1 had any dependencies on Disc 2. Or maybe just to copy all of the packages from both CDs in /usr/ports/packages and then install the requested ones.
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