From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 17:37:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B10B16A46D for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:37:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B5713C4D1; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:37:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <47406CEF.7080708@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:48:47 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Kaduk References: <47d0403c0711171344u383c0cbbwcb6b00f81c84a08e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0711171344u383c0cbbwcb6b00f81c84a08e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Infinite loop in menus in sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:37:37 -0000 Ben Kaduk wrote: > Hi all, > > I finally broke down and pulled out the 7.0-beta2 iso for my dell inspiron 8500, > but when I was at the part of the installation procedure to install the ports > collection, it comes up with the message: > > Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media. > > This may be because the packages collection is not available > on the distribution media you've chose, most likely an FTP site > without the packages collection mirrored. Please verify that > your media, or your path to the media, is correct and try again. > > [OK] > > > It is true that I am installing over ftp from ftp5.freebsd.org (which > is only about > five blocks away in the real world!), and it certainly seems to not have > a 7-INDEX floating around, but that's not the main issue. > > When I select ``OK'', it seems to try again, and pops up the same message. > It would be nice to have an option to back up in the menus and change > something; at the moment, I broke to vt4 and installed the perl5.8 port > so that I can build my own index file, but I don't know if this will break me > out of my menu loop. > > No time to investigate and patch at the moment, as I'm trying to > get the ppc beta iso to boot on the machine I'm typing this on, > as I said I would test a couple things (I said this several months > ago, and only rebooted once since then). > > Anyone else see this behavior? It is expected that betas are not able to find the package sets because they are not present in the packages-7.0-release/ directory yet. Maybe sysinstall should be changed to look in packages-7-stable/ until the packages are ready late in the release cycle. Also giving a way to back out of the loop would be nice, as you say :) Kris