Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 16:35:17 -0400 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should bsdinstall work? Message-ID: <f265448f-1443-cb2f-121a-a48f42f0f255@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <YJGe%2B2JNRGwHERBG@cloud.zyxst.net> References: <YJGe%2B2JNRGwHERBG@cloud.zyxst.net>
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Yes, it should work just fine; however, we don't provision the microsd images for the installer, especially for -CURRENT. The actual OS is fetched in plaintext to allow caching and the MANIFEST files are what provides authentication -- they provide the checksums of the files that get fetched so that they can be verified against corruption and tampering. For snapshots, the current version changes all the time and that doesn't work; it also means that network-install media have to be set up with those checksums in advance. Where are you trying to install to? Usually the assumption is that the microsd images *are* the installed system rather than a tool you use to install a system. -Nathan On 5/4/21 3:22 PM, tech-lists wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to set up a boot-from-usb3 raspberry pi 4. I thought > i'd be able to do this by booting into latest current snapshot image for > arm64 rpi (written to microsd), and then running bsdinstall as root. > > I can select the auto-zfs option then select the usb3 disk as > installation destination. The bsdinstall selects the sets and downloads > them, but then get the error: > > "error while fetching file://usr/freebsd-dist/MANIFEST : No such file or > directory" > > also tried via release/13 image, same error. Looks like it's downloading > the files but then the installer can't see them, something like that. > > the downloaded files are there: > > root@generic:~ # ls -lah /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/ > total 187454 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4B Apr 9 06:51 . > drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 6B Apr 9 06:50 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 158M Apr 9 06:51 base.txz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25M Apr 9 06:51 kernel.txz > root@generic:~ # > worth submitting a PR? or is bsdinstall legacy and I need to use some > other method. I've not tried releng/12.2 yet. > > thanks,
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