Problem with sysinstall in 9.0-current?

Gerd Truschinski gerd at truschinski.de
Fri Jul 9 20:43:04 UTC 2010


Hello,

I have tried 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201005/FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201006-amd64-bootonly.iso 
and all the other 9.0-current ISOs from 201001, 201002, 201004 and 201005.

This is what I have done:
- Boot from CD
- Select Region Germany
- Select german keyboard
- Select "Begin a custom installation"
- Select "View/Set various installation options"
- Select "Media Type"
- Select "Install from a FTP server"
- Select "ftp.freebsd.org"
- Select ra0 (my first LAN device)
- Select NO, i.e. no IPv6
- Select YES, i.e. DHCP
- I get an IP-address from the DHCP-Server, also a  IPv4 gateway and a  nameserver
!! but instead going back to the menu I get an error message "Cannot resolv 
hostname ftp.freebsd.org"

Wen I try this with FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE or 
FreeBSD-8.1-PRERELEASE-201006-amd64-bootonly.iso I get _no_ error message and 
all went fine.

I have asked about this problem on current and I have send a PR (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148220) but got no answer except to use disc1 to install FreeBSD. Which is not that what I want. I want to install over the net.

Did anyone from this list has an idea what is going wrong?

/gT/



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