Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 10:34:07 -0700 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: Greg Rowe <greg@uswest.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2 BETA Upgrade Problem Message-ID: <32D3DA8F.A59@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <9701081115.ZM12694@nevis.oss.uswest.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Greg Rowe wrote: > Has anyone seen a problem with 2.2 BETA upgrade procedure using NFS ? If I do > an upgrade using NFS, as soon as it gets to the point of installing the > distributions, it immediately comes back with a "Couldn't extract the following > distributions" (all distributions are listed) error. Yes, I've seen the exact same thing last night. (Sorry, haven't made the pr yet.) This was from a local FreeBSD 2.1.5 NFS server. The machine I was upgrading could mount the 2.2-BETA directories successfully, but the floppy boot couldn't. > If I create another directory(while still in the install shell) > and try doing the mount again, the mount command completes with no error but > again ls'ing produces the "Stale NFS file handle" error. Yep, I got the same thing. Also, if you type "mount" and list what's mounted, the two NFS mounts show up with garbage characters: !*@ on /dist sj7($!* on /mnt I had to resort to moving the 2.2-BETA sources into the anonymous ftp user's directory and using the FTP install option. Luckily, that worked. (Until it came time to restore my /etc directory. More garbage characters appeared but recovering the files by hand worked.) -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?32D3DA8F.A59>