Installing 8.1-RELEASE - Problems via FTP

[Tim Nelson]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> On May 21, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Tim Nelson wrote:
> 
> > Greetings-
> > 
> > I have need to install FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64 to build some
> > packages. My usual method of installation is via the
> > *-bootonly.iso, pulling the install from FTP. However, it appears
> > since 8.1-RELEASE is old and deprecated, none of the mirrors have
> > the files available anymore to use during the installer.
> > 
> 
> Poppycock…
> 
> BEFORE you get to the sysinstall media selection dialog, make a
> detour into the "Options", use arrow-up/down to highlight "Release
> Name", press SPACEBAR, and change from X.Y-RELEASE to "any" (without
> quotes; also acceptable would be "__RELEASE" without quotes).
> 
> NOTE: This will tell sysinstall to *not* try and auto-detect the
> release directory path on the FTP server but instead use the exact
> path that you give it.
> 
> When you get to the media selection dialog, use FTP-Passive with the
> following URL:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/
> 
> That should work. The "any" (or "__RELEASE") release-name tells it to
> not try things like "pub/FreeBSD/releases/<arch>/<relName>" (which
> obviously doesn't exist, given extra "-Archive" and "old-" prefixes
> in some of the path directory elements).
> 
> 

This worked perfectly, no problems. Thanks for the help!

--Tim