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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