Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:51:47 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@wxs.nl> Cc: FreeBSD alpha mailing list <alpha@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Prpblems installing 4.7-RELEASE Message-ID: <XFMail.20021024145147.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0210242037130.357-100000@yokozuna.bsd>
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On 24-Oct-2002 Marco Beishuizen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install 4.7-RELEASE from an FTP-server. When most of the > system is installed (after when the ports are installed in /usr), > sysinstall suddenly says that it cannot find the INDEX-file from the > selected media type, when it tries to install the packages. Sysinstall > quits and returns to the main menu. After that I tried to "perform any > pending extract actions" (in Custom Installation Options), but then it > says it cannot resolve ftp.freebsd.org, but a moment before it worked > fine! > > Does anyone knows how to install from here? Ok, I guess when the alpha 4.7 packages were uploaded, no one put the packages symlink in the 4.7 release directory. I've just fixed it on ftp-master and it should propagate out to other ftp servers in a few hours. This should fix the problem with no INDEX file. Sorry for the delay. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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