5.4 package install woes.... :(

Bill Schoolcraft bill at wiliweld.com
Fri May 13 17:14:44 PDT 2005


At 13 May 2005 it looks like Lowell Gilbert composed:

> Bill Schoolcraft <runfreebsd at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full
> > iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them
> > in loopback and offering the two ISO images up via
> > /stand/sysinstall as a source for packages.  I cannot seem to
> > get the new "mdconfig" to mount the iso's.  
> 
> It's probably easier to just copy the packages off of there and use
> pkg_add rather than sysinstall.  But it should be fine either way.
> 
> > 
> > Here is the command I'm using.
> > 
> > (first made mount points of /mnt/loop1 and /mnt/loop2)
> > 
> > ######################################################
> > 
> > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -u 1
> > 
> > mount /dev/md1 /mnt/loop1
> > mount: /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1: incorrect super block
> 
> You forgot the "-t cd9660" option to mount.
> If you leave that out, mount will try to treat the filesystem as UFS.
> 
> > So the deeper I dig myself into this hole the more I ask myself
> > how can I just choose all my optional binary packages to install
> > from the "post install" menu and just have FreeBSD-5.4 have me
> > install "disk-1" once and "disk-2" once and all my package
> > choices are done.
> 
> A little tricky, but someone could write code to do that.  It would
> probably require a bit of intelligence up front, to make sure that
> nothing on Disc 1 had any dependencies on Disc 2.  Or maybe just to
> copy all of the packages from both CDs in /usr/ports/packages and then
> install the requested ones.

Thanks for the above information, it does give me a new view on
the problem and some angles of approach that sound good.

Thanks
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