Bug 116848

Summary: Diskless Booting - make distribution fails with Error Code 64
Product: Base System Reporter: Bill Tillman <btillman99>
Component: miscAssignee: Gavin Atkinson <gavin>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 6.2-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Bill Tillman 2007-10-03 01:40:07 UTC 
I have been trying to get a server setup to serve some diskless clients.
Everyone tells me that diskless is a snap...but the docs leave me wanting
to swallow a cyanide pill...been at this a long time and at least I'm
convinced that something must be outdated in the docs or diskless just
doesn't work anymore.

I follow the steps in man diskless for pxeboot. And I have read many HOWTO
articles on diskless setup with FreeBSD. But each time I try to build the
server files to serve the clients with these commands:

export DESTDIR=/dksro (or I sometimes try setenv)
cd /usr/src
make world
make kernel
cd etc
make distribution

I get a dozen or so lines of text and then the process fails with this message:
install: wrong number or types of arguments
useage: install [-b-CcpSsv] [-B suffix]...etc
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-10-08 01:52:29 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-bugs

This does not sound i386-specific.
Comment 2 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-01-29 10:17:18 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

To submitter:  The commands you used work fine for me on 6.3-RELEASE. 
Could you please retest and see if you still see the issue?  If you do, 
please add the 10 or so lines before the error message to this PR - 
without seeing exactly why it is failing I suspect this will be hard to 
solve.  Also, please show the contents of your /etc/make.conf file.
Comment 3 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-01-29 10:17:18 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->gavin

Track
Comment 4 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-03-03 13:34:58 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout (>1 month).  I cannot recreate it on 6.3-RELEASE. 
To submitter: If you still think this is an issue, please supply the 
requested info and we can reopen this PR.