From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 8 10:34:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA22241 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 10:34:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [207.173.16.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA22219 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 10:33:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from fluffy.aros.net (fluffy.aros.net [207.173.16.2]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.8.4/Unknown) with ESMTP id LAA03913; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:33:23 -0700 (MST) Received: from fluffy.aros.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fluffy.aros.net (8.8.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA08250; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:33:21 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199701081833.LAA08250@fluffy.aros.net> To: Sean Kelly cc: Greg Rowe , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2 BETA Upgrade Problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jan 1997 10:34:07 MST." <32D3DA8F.A59@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 11:33:21 -0700 From: Dave Andersen Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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