From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 9 14:20:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9845F37C397 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 14:20:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12308; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 14:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: Joe Greco Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.*-stable sysinstall ... custom dist problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jul 2000 00:48:35 CDT." <200007090548.AAA60599@aurora.sol.net> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 14:19:54 -0700 Message-ID: <12305.963177594@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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