From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 18:13:44 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 CA13316A417 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlsonmark@gmail.com) Received: from rn-out-0102.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA2F13C467 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carlsonmark@gmail.com) Received: by rn-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s42so1042183rnb for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:13:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ssSi7WmBx1BEtsF+8Jfa6mm2HX6p/l8+yGl6OLlrnbA=; b=pXUC54Aa34WMNXNwkRODt+ZS5q1Q21pi73dHYPsd9Am9rWRYV1pqcshF2YaJYwhParDQqJ0ZJchWF7k5D9CDJlmKSrg/J2xDwzi94s4DR10djtTphLUot8W2s5kvG43xeLIUuArYRelwrPkbkh7STBvIdM62pJNxP/Pdbrc67xg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ac/5qmPrnrOVsw3zlkkGvP8IJ+DMEA4yIOppsUyn3ezMMfZLoeTb3iJ3kVUvbrDazFBY/5YzO9jzuoUOpfKsQRUzEZ0D1tP2xuRE941OBenwrVHzMQb1jlgtEiaxTJhijj/+ejQeNq6QE4esmFtphsVuJ4JwK6fti6GNoWTZNAA= Received: by 10.142.240.9 with SMTP id n9mr1225097wfh.1195494259479; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:44:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.112.12 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:44:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:44:19 -0700 From: "Mark Carlson" To: "Ben Kaduk" In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0711171344u383c0cbbwcb6b00f81c84a08e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47d0403c0711171344u383c0cbbwcb6b00f81c84a08e@mail.gmail.com> 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 18:13:44 -0000 On 11/17/07, 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? Yes, in i386 5.x (5.0? 5.2? I forget which,) several years ago. I noticed it when I didn't have my router set up properly, so doing an install over FTP wouldn't work. The only way I could find to get out of the loop was to restart the system, or fix the network. -Mark C.