5.4 NFS install broken?

[David P. Discher]

Well, not broken, but its does not look like it was documented.

I was just doing this yesterday, copied ISO #1 completely, then in cd#2

     # cd /iso2/packages ; tar -cf - | tar -xvf - -C /nfsinstall/ 
packages

The file packages/INDEX needs to be updated.  I don't know how
to create this, so I went the ftp servers, and grabbed the INDEX
from the combined release.

There is a PROBLEM WITH THIS INDEX file.  There are TWO entries for
perl in it.  Perl 5.6.2 and 5.8.2 I do believe. The two CD ISOs
only contained perl 5.8.2.  Vi and delete the 5.6.2 line, and
this seemed to work. (Don't quote me on exact version numbers.)

I also did this, not sure if this is needed.

     # cd /nfsinstall; rm filename.txt
     # find . -type f | sed -e 's/^\.\///' | sort > filename.txt

per section 3.4
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release- 
build.html>


btw - sort of related, I posted yesterday:
     "FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 - pxeboot hosting on em0 Intel 82540EM"

Would love feedback on this.

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On May 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, 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.
>
> If there's a different/better way (e.g. not using CDs at all) to
> build a FreeBSD-5.4 repository suitable for NFS installation purposes,
> advice on that would also be welcome.
>
> The Handbook chapter on installations is pretty good, but it sort
> of glosses over the details in the Advanced Installation (2.13.6.1)
> section, and I suspect it might not be quite as simple for 5.4 .
>
> Thanks,
> sr.
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