Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 14:19:54 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.*-stable sysinstall ... custom dist problems Message-ID: <12305.963177594@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jul 2000 00:48:35 CDT." <200007090548.AAA60599@aurora.sol.net>
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This should work as it always has; no change has been made to the code in question, nor have any additional size limits (or any other kind) been imposed. - Jordan > I'm having sysinstall problems. > > I used to be able to do this, and I can't seem to anymore. I was wondering > if anyone could verify my theory. > > For a long time, I've rolled custom distributions and .tar.gz'd them, put > them into bin.aa, did a cksum and patched bin.inf, and simply used > sysinstall to pop them onto a system. > > I seem to be unable to get this to work, now, under 4.0. It's worse because > I'm trying to do it on a laptop, and every iteration of try-something-else > takes quite a bit of typing to set up (plus forgotten things that scrap a > given boot). I thought it was just my laptop, until I decided to see if it > would go and install a standard load - and it did. > > Pieces = 1 > cksum.aa = 1770647625 465713122 > > is what I'm trying to load. > > I experimented a bit and it seems to me that maybe there's about a 300K > chunk size limit now, which really sucks because splitting that distro up > with split ends up with "too many pieces". > > Is there, in fact, a chunk size limit now? > > Obviously I can work around this, but it's inconvenient and unfortunate > if so. :-/ > > Thanks for any hints, > -- > ... Joe > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net > Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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