Bug 81218
| Summary: | 5.4 dist archives not backwards compatible | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Wes Groleau <groleau+bsd> |
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
I found a workaround: Apparently, enough got loaded before 'tar' bailed out to make the disk bootable. The boot sequence hung before giving a login prompt, and remote logins wouldn't work. However, by unplugging peripherals, I finally shook it loose enough to a place where Ctrl-C would exit the startup script. Then I was able to repeat the commands using the 'tar' that the failed attempt had installed. -- Wes Groleau ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ A UNIX signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent ^ ^ of a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets ^ ^ surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like ^ ^ Heinlein or Dr. Who. ^ ^ -- Chris Maeda ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:46:34PM +0000, Wes Groleau wrote:
> i386/5.4-RELEASE split archives cammot be unpacked by a 4.11 installation. Repeats: "Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file" until error count limit is reached.
AFAIK this isn't actually an error. Are you sure?
Kris
State Changed From-To: open->closed Feedback timeout |
i386/5.4-RELEASE split archives cammot be unpacked by a 4.11 installation. Repeats: "Unknown file type 'x', extracted as normal file" until error count limit is reached. (I had a 4.9 system, and due to various issues, am forced to use the method below to upgrade. This method worked for 4.11, but 4.11 was not able to get 5.4) Fix: Include in the tools directory binary versions of tar that can execute on earlier O.S. installations but are capable of unpacking these archives. Or document command-line options for making it work on earlier systems (if possible) How-To-Repeat: Let /tmp/Download be a directory on a machine running FreeBSD 4.11 This machine has no internet access. On an iMac with dialup,<BR> NFS Mount the directory at /BSD <BR> cd /BSD <BR> wget --mirror --passive-ftp ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/......../5.4-RELEASE <BR> On the FreeBSD machine (it has two disks), dismount all partitions of the target disk, NOT the disk booted. In my case /dev/ad1s1 was booted and ad1s0 is the one I want to upgrade <BR> mkdir /UPGRADE <BR> mount /dev/ad0s1a /UPGRADE <BR> mount /dev/ad0s1e /UPGRADE/var <BR> mount /dev/ad0s1f /UPGRADE/tmp <BR> mount /dev/ad0s1g /UPGRADE/usr <BR> cd /tmp/Download/......../5.4-RELEASE/base <BR>Look in install.sh and copy the cat base.?? | tar (et cetera) command. Use /UPGRADE for the destination. <BR> Watch it fail.