Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 17:14:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.4 package install woes.... :( Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0505131713560.24616-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com>
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At 13 May 2005 it looks like Lowell Gilbert composed: > 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. Thanks for the above information, it does give me a new view on the problem and some angles of approach that sound good. Thanks -- |<----------------------"Word-Wrap-At-72-Please"---------------------->| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://billschoolcraft.com
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