amd64/93929: 6.1-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso "Unable to get packages/INDEX" via FTP

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/93929; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Yoshiaki Kasahara <kasahara at nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: amd64/93929: 6.1-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso "Unable to get packages/INDEX" via FTP
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:56:20 -0500

 On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:48:40AM +0000, Yoshiaki Kasahara wrote:
 
 > After the ports tree had been extracted, sysinstall said "Unable to get packages/INDEX from selected media" and stop installing.  Even I couldn't
 > escape from the message (RET/ESC key caused indefinite retry to get the file
 > and returned to the same message display).  C-c and CTRL/ALT/DEL didn't work.
 > I changed the ftp site to ftp.freebsd.org (primary) but it didn't work too.
 > I guess at least I can escape from the message.
 
 As it said in the beta 2 announcement, packages are not yet complete,
 so this is expected.  In fact I have now uploaded a partial set of
 packages, so if you were to try again in a day or so it will probably
 work.
 
 Kris