28.07.2012, 13:46, "Matthias Petermann" <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > currently I experienced an unexpected behavior of the FreeBSD bsdinstall > installer. Some weeks ago I could use it sucessfully to create a jail > environment with > > # bsdinstall jail /jails/myjail > > Today I tried to repeat this on another system(2) and it fails after the > selection of the to-be-used mirror. Also re-trying it on the original > system(1) leads to an error but a different one. Since then I upgraded from > 9.0-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 using freebsd-update. > > Here are the symptoms: > > (2) FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64: After typing "bsdinstall..." it brings me > directly to the mirror selection list, but after selecting a mirror it aborts > with an error message "An installation step has beeen aborted. Would you like > to restart the installer or exit the installer?" > > (1) FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 i386: After typing "bsdinstall..." it brings me to > the distribution select dialog. After selection of the distribution set, it > shows the mirror selection dialog. After selecting a mirror it aborts with a > fetch error "Error while fetching /base.txz: Invalid URL scheme" > > I tried different mirrors, too. And they all seem to be basically online - > pointing an FTP client to them showed no errors. > > So what am I doing wrong? Does bsdinstall maintain some hidden configuration > file which may influence its behavior? The environment variables mentioned in > bsdinstall(8) are not set on both systems. Or is there a known issue with > 9.0-RELEASE-p3 which appears different on amd64 and i386 systems? > > It would be great if anyone could validate this.
I did a quick test on 9.1-PRERELEASE, ant bsdinstall trying to fetch 9.1-PRERELEASE files, which it surely can't find. There must be an option like 'TARGET' to specify exact version to fetch like it's the case for Debian debootsrap. > > Kind regards, > Matthias > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
