5.4 package install woes.... :(
Bill Schoolcraft
bill at wiliweld.com
Fri May 13 17:30:05 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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