Bug 117951

Summary:	7.0Beta2 netinstall fails
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Andreas Feid <asimex>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	7.0-BETA2
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Andreas Feid 2007-11-10 02:30:03 UTC

Download the netinst image of 7.0-Beta2
start install
wait till packages are to be fetched
error appears "unable to get packages/index file from the selected media"

Check ftp.freebsd.com

there is indeed no such file

ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386" is cwd.
ftp> ls 7.0-BETA2/packages/INDEX
200 PORT command successful.
550 No such file or directory.
ftp> ls 6.2-RELEASE/packages/INDEX
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
INDEX
226 Listing completed.
ftp: 7 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 7000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp>

Fix: 

Update the ftp server and all its mirrors with the proper INDEX file
How-To-Repeat: Try to install 7.0-BETA2 via the net

Comment 1 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer

2007-11-10 16:12:14 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Packages are not available at that location until later in the release 
cycle, thanks for your report though.