From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 9 15:50: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8DE37B684 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgreco@aurora.sol.net) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.2/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id SAA33503; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 18:06:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200007092306.SAA33503@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: 4.*-stable sysinstall ... custom dist problems In-Reply-To: <12305.963177594@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 9, 2000 2:19:54 pm" To: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 18:06:56 -0500 (CDT) Cc: stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. Hmm, I'll try to play with it in a less hostile environment. The obvious workaround, to install just bindist and then go to the emergency shell and do something like ftp> get mydistro.aa "|tar --unlink -zxvf -" works just fine, but I tried half a dozen variations using sysinstall itself to retrieve the mydistro.aa named as bin.aa, and none worked. I was at first chalking it up to PCMCIA networking issues, but it broke under PPP as well, and the PCMCIA stuff worked fine when I did the above workaround. I've been doing this with no problems since 2.1.0R days, so it really caught me off guard.. I think I'll be putting this same distro on one of my kickaround boxes, and it'll be a lot easier to experiment since I won't have to remember a string of things I gotta type at the -c prompt. :-) -- ... 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