Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 11:33:21 -0700 From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: Greg Rowe <greg@uswest.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2 BETA Upgrade Problem Message-ID: <199701081833.LAA08250@fluffy.aros.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jan 1997 10:34:07 MST." <32D3DA8F.A59@fsl.noaa.gov>
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> > 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.)
We encountered it also. I did a send-pr on part of it - the fact that
the system reboots after telling you it couldn't load the bin
distribution and doesn't give you a chance to select a different install
type - but I assumed the NFS mount was something I was goofing up.
> 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.
It also failed from a local FreeBSD 2.2-BETA NFS server. It later
worked properly from the same server via anonymous FTP.
> 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.)
This happened here, but only on the machine which we unsuccessfully
attempted to upgrade via NFS. The other 2.2-BETA upgrades went perfectly -
the garbaged etc storage directory seems to be an artifact of trying to
upgrade via NFS.
-Dave Andersen
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