From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 4 10: 9:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com (mailout01.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9217637B41B; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:09:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd07.sul.t-online.de by mailout01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16tBfU-0007oM-03; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 20:09:04 +0200 Received: from pc5.abc (520067998749-0001@[217.233.115.166]) by fmrl07.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16tBfP-1D5j3AC; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:08:59 +0200 Received: (from nicolas@localhost) by pc5.abc (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g34I8wD05539; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:08:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from list@rachinsky.de) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:08:58 +0200 From: Nicolas Rachinsky To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help: FreeBSD 4.3 to 4.5 upgrade problem using sysinstall script Message-ID: <20020404180858.GB5119@pc5.abc> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001001c1dc02$11f15b00$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001001c1dc02$11f15b00$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Powered-by: FreeBSD X-Homepage: http://www.rachinsky.de X-PGP-Keyid: C11ABC0E X-PGP-Fingerprint: 19DB 8392 8FE0 814A 7362 EEBD A53B 526A C11A BC0E X-PGP-Key: http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas/nicolas_rachinsky.asc X-Sender: 520067998749-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Koroush Saraf [2002-04-04 09:56:39 -0800]: > Hi All, > I would like to upgrade a bunch of FreeBSD4.3 computers to FreeBSD 4.5. > Following the FreeBSD handbook I have setup a computer as an ftp server to > serve the contents of the CD4_5_1 as the root for anonymous FTP. > I like to be able to write a script to tell sysinstall to simply upgrade all > the computers. However, before I attempted to write the script I decided to > just try the interactive setup using the /stand/sysinstall on one of the > computers that needs the upgrade. [...] > Howevever the problem is that it comes back and gives the following error: > ? Warning: Can't find the `4.3-RELEASE' distribution on this ? > ? FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for ? > ? the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options ? > ? menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what's ? > ? available on bsdcon (or set to "any"). ? > ? ? > ? Would you like to select another FTP server? > > Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong and also tell me how to > script this? put the cd in a directory named "4.3-RELEASE", sysinstall is looking for such a directory on the ftp-server Nicolas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message