sparc64/120999: 7.0-RC2-Installation via FTP fails, wrong path
Michael Fuckner
michael at fuckner.net
Tue Feb 26 11:40:12 UTC 2008
The following reply was made to PR sparc64/120999; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Michael Fuckner <michael at fuckner.net>
To: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: sparc64/120999: 7.0-RC2-Installation via FTP fails, wrong path
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:00:18 +0100
John Baldwin wrote:
> On Saturday 23 February 2008 11:19:01 am Michael Fuckner wrote:
>>> Number: 120999
>>> Category: sparc64
>>> Synopsis: 7.0-RC2-Installation via FTP fails, wrong path
>>> Confidential: no
>>> Severity: serious
>>> Priority: low
>>> Responsible: freebsd-sparc64
>>> State: open
>>> Quarter:
>>> Keywords:
>>> Date-Required:
>>> Class: sw-bug
>>> Submitter-Id: current-users
>>> Arrival-Date: Sat Feb 23 16:40:03 UTC 2008
>>> Closed-Date:
>>> Last-Modified:
>>> Originator: Michael Fuckner
>>> Release: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE amd64
>>> Organization:
>>> Environment:
>>>
>>> Description:
>> Installing via FTP doesn't work because installation still searches for
>> files in snapshot directory and not release.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this affects other architectures as well.
>>
>>> How-To-Repeat:
>> boot from 7.0-RC2-sparc64-bootonly.iso and try to install via ftp from
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/sparc64/7.0-RC2/
>> sysinstall searches for files in /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/sparc64/7.0-RC2
>>
>> The path can not be corrected in the options menu.
>>
>>> Fix:
>> Correct path in installer or move files back to snapshots directory (not a
>> good idea)
>
> Are you sure? sysinstall tries several different paths:
>
> /* List of sub directories to look for under a given FTP server. */
> const char *ftp_dirs[] = { ".", "releases/"MACHINE, "snapshots/"MACHINE,
> "pub/FreeBSD", "pub/FreeBSD/releases/"MACHINE,
> "pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/"MACHINE, NULL };
>
> Also, this doesn't seem to be a sparc64-specific PR.
I rechecked: squid vs pf was my problem. Please close this PR.
Regards,
Michael!
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