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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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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 ?
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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

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