5.4 NFS install broken?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat May 28 21:18:15 PDT 2005


On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 06:40:05PM -0700, Steve Rikli wrote:
> How does one create the NFS installation directory for FreeBSD-5.4 ?
> 
> I.e. is it supposed to be as simple as dumping the entire contents
> of CD#1 & CD#2 into a directory on an NFS server, and pointing
> 'sysinstall' to it?
> 
> I've been doing 4.x & 5.x NFS installs successfully with an NFS
> server's repositories setup in that manner, but with FreeBSD-5.4 ,
> 'sysinstall' prompted for the next "disc", and I had no apparent
> way of selecting a different media or different source.
> 
> I'm thinking I must not be getting (parts of?) CD#2 into the right
> place, and/or need to update a table-of-contents file, or something
> equally simple.

There were some changes to the installer before 5.4-RELEASE, and it's
possible that none of the users tested this during the pre-release
period :(  Talk to re at FreeBSD.org.

Kris
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