Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:18:02 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: stuart nichols <stu@area51.capnet.state.tx.us> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD AMD64 Current] passive ftp. WAS: proper Options release name string for: SESNAP 0730 Message-ID: <20040730211802.GP26534@sirius.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <20040730152201.S64556@area51.capnet.state.tx.us> References: <200407301639.13753.matt@fruitsalad.org> <20040730145915.GJ26534@sirius.firepipe.net> <20040730101819.I64556@area51.capnet.state.tx.us> <20040730112237.Q64556@area51.capnet.state.tx.us> <20040730181558.GN26534@sirius.firepipe.net> <20040730131518.E64556@area51.capnet.state.tx.us> <20040730190559.GO26534@sirius.firepipe.net> <20040730152201.S64556@area51.capnet.state.tx.us>
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--jITzwD3HDGXid3BE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:00:39PM -0500, stuart nichols wrote: > Really? It sure looks like I told you in the marked lines below from a > previous message: [...] > -> > I choose FTP for the media and under URL pick snapshots.se.freebsd= =2Eorg. Oh, sorry, my mistake. > Yes, the box is behind a FreeBSD 5.2.1-R i386 firewall (IPFW2), but I've > never had a problem installing a FreeBSD system from behind it before. Well, snapshots.se itself is also behind a nat firewall, which predictably plays hell on the ftp stuff. :-( > I have no idea how to use "HTTP" in the middle of a Custom install. The > only HTTP choice in the media is for an HTTP proxy-to-ftp, where it asks > you what port to use. If that is the choice you want me to try, you'll > need to supply the information that it is asking for. Hmm. I thought it supported HTTP. :-( > In the meantime, just to try it out, I selected FTP passive mode for the > media and explicitly typed in snapshots.se.freebsd.org. I also explicitly > set the release name to 5.2-CURRENT-20040730-SESNAP. I got much further > than the previous times, but it stopped after installing the regular > distribution files and said that it is "unable to get packages/INDEX file > from the selected media". Well, there's no packages. Don't bother trying to install any... > The 5.2-CURRENT might work. There is a double indirection from > 5.2-CURRENT --> 5-LATEST --> 5.2-CURRENT-20040730-SESNAP, and it may have > been the passive mode problem that was keeping 5.2-CURRENT from working > before, not the release name itself. I'll try it at some point. Actually, I just installed that 5.2-CURRENT symlink as a temporary fix. But it really needs to grab the files from the build it's for... > I don't know why it needs to do a package install on a new system (I would > think that if its required, it might as well be in the distribution), but > let me know what I should do from this point. When I accept "OK" on the > packages/INDEX message it simply tries to get the package INDEX from the > same server again without asking me if I want to reset the media, then it > gives me the "unable to get packages/INDEX" message again. Endless loop. I don't know why it is doing that. There's no packages for any of SESNAP's snapshots. I know the i386 ones work. Can you try a minimal install instead of adding all the other stuff you pulled? Regards, --=20 wca --jITzwD3HDGXid3BE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBCrsKF47idPgWcsURAsY+AJ0aAjwbH2X1yDWBzmO2s3gpNIEFzgCeIoIN /P0SAB+Rq4Qf/7BY9nnrn0Y= =Ov9G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jITzwD3HDGXid3BE--
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