28.07.2012, 17:13, "Darren Baginski" <kick...@yandex.com>: > 28.07.2012, 13:46, "Matthias Petermann" <matth...@d2ux.net>: > >> 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. >
What I did next is: #diff -u mirrorselect.orig mirrorselect --- mirrorselect.orig 2012-07-28 12:55:33.000000000 +0000 +++ mirrorselect 2012-07-28 12:58:49.000000000 +0000 @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ MIRROR_BUTTON=$? exec 3>&- -BSDINSTALL_DISTSITE="$MIRROR/pub/FreeBSD/releases/`uname -m`/`uname -p`/`uname -r`" +BSDINSTALL_DISTSITE="$MIRROR/pub/FreeBSD/releases/`uname -m`/`uname -p`/$TARGET" case $MIRROR_BUTTON in $DIALOG_CANCEL) and then: #export TARGET=9.0-RELEASE and again #bsdinstall jail /tmp/tstenv Got a working environment after that. I thing release/arch selection has to be a part of the installer, either directly or via environment variables. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
