Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 21:18:13 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Steve Rikli <sr@genyosha.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4 NFS install broken? Message-ID: <20050529041813.GA82800@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050529014005.GA11940@dragon.genyosha.net> References: <20050529014005.GA11940@dragon.genyosha.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 06:40:05PM -0700, Steve Rikli wrote: > How does one create the NFS installation directory for FreeBSD-5.4 ? > > I.e. is it supposed to be as simple as dumping the entire contents > of CD#1 & CD#2 into a directory on an NFS server, and pointing > 'sysinstall' to it? > > I've been doing 4.x & 5.x NFS installs successfully with an NFS > server's repositories setup in that manner, but with FreeBSD-5.4 , > 'sysinstall' prompted for the next "disc", and I had no apparent > way of selecting a different media or different source. > > I'm thinking I must not be getting (parts of?) CD#2 into the right > place, and/or need to update a table-of-contents file, or something > equally simple. There were some changes to the installer before 5.4-RELEASE, and it's possible that none of the users tested this during the pre-release period :( Talk to re@FreeBSD.org. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCmUKFWry0BWjoQKURApTEAKCxG/wc4t3+fXHhOJpLU+J3qe0CbACfUm6Z AmZJDe67TrwtPJSoxMOoR/s= =jzie -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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