Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:58:47 -0500 From: "Martin G. McCormick" <martin@server1.shellworld.net> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Still Trying to do a Headless Installation. Message-ID: <20140823185847.42091228B7@server1.shellworld.net>
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I need to do a headless installation of FreeBSD9.1 to build a replacement server for an existing 9.1 system. After an attempt to make a bootable USB drive resulted in the world growing a couple of days older and no usable boot media, I fell back to the older procedure of modifying the ISO image which has it's own particular set of issues. I successfully mounted the image on a FreeBSD system and prepared to copy the file system now in /mnt to a read-write file system. Here is what I did as root based on the Advanced Installation section of the Handbook: # mkdir headless #tar -C headless -pvxf FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso A great spew erupts: usr/lib/libarchive.so.5: Can't create 'usr/lib/libarchive.so.5' usr/lib/libasn1.so.10: Can't create 'usr/lib/libasn1.so.10' usr/lib/libauditd.so.5: Can't create 'usr/lib/libauditd.so.5' and on and on, quite impressive. It looks like except for the libraries not being copied that the rest of the file system does un-tar. I remember in the past doing this same process with older FreeBSD versions and we also got warnings about some files being created in the wrong order but the images worked and were essentially the same size as the original image. Any ideas as to what is wrong, here? Thanks. This is turning in to a career in and of itself. Martin McCormick
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