Bug 93929

Summary: 6.1-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso "Unable to get packages/INDEX" via FTP
Product: Base System Reporter: kasahara <kasahara>
Component: amd64Assignee: freebsd-amd64 (Nobody) <amd64>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 6.1-BETA2   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description kasahara 2006-02-28 05:50:02 UTC 
I'm trying to install 6.1-BETA2 amd64 to my Pentium4 630 machine for test purpose.  I'm using 6.1-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso and tried to install via FTP.

I used "Custom" installation (as always) and create slices/partitions.
Then I selected to install all the distributions (including ports tree) 
via FTP, and committed the task.  

After the ports tree had been extracted, sysinstall said "Unable to get packages/INDEX from selected media" and stop installing.  Even I couldn't
escape from the message (RET/ESC key caused indefinite retry to get the file
and returned to the same message display).  C-c and CTRL/ALT/DEL didn't work.
I changed the ftp site to ftp.freebsd.org (primary) but it didn't work too.
I guess at least I can escape from the message.

Once I installed FreeBSD-5.4-BETA i386 with almost the identical way,
and there was no such problem.

Fix: 

Maybe it points wrong location?  I'm not sure.
How-To-Repeat: Boot with 6.1-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso and install FreeBSD with ordinary way.
Comment 1 Kris Kennaway 2006-02-28 05:56:20 UTC 
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:48:40AM +0000, Yoshiaki Kasahara wrote:

> After the ports tree had been extracted, sysinstall said "Unable to get packages/INDEX from selected media" and stop installing.  Even I couldn't
> escape from the message (RET/ESC key caused indefinite retry to get the file
> and returned to the same message display).  C-c and CTRL/ALT/DEL didn't work.
> I changed the ftp site to ftp.freebsd.org (primary) but it didn't work too.
> I guess at least I can escape from the message.

As it said in the beta 2 announcement, packages are not yet complete,
so this is expected.  In fact I have now uploaded a partial set of
packages, so if you were to try again in a day or so it will probably
work.

Kris
Comment 2 kasahara 2006-02-28 06:06:59 UTC 
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:56:20 -0500,
	Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> said:

> As it said in the beta 2 announcement, packages are not yet complete,
> so this is expected.  In fact I have now uploaded a partial set of
> packages, so if you were to try again in a day or so it will probably
> work.

Thank you for your prompt reply and I'm so sorry... I saw ML messages
about BETA2 on Opteron platform, so I wildly guessed basic packages
(such as Perl) were already there....

I'll try again a couple of day later.

Regards,
--Y.Kasahara
Comment 3 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-02-28 07:57:05 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Expected result; packages were not yet available at the time of 
testing.