amd64/119949: 6.3-RELEASE install; cannot find packages/INDEX error

[Byron Young]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/119949; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Byron Young <bkyoung74q9 at yahoo.com>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: amd64/119949: 6.3-RELEASE install; cannot find packages/INDEX error
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:03:29 -0800 (PST)

 On the install machine, use
 
 <ip address or
 fqdn>/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/6.3-RELEASE
 
 as the custom ftp URL, leaving the OPTIONS setting to
 RELEASE: 6.3-RELEASE, user ftp, and password
 install at machine.whatever. This should map to 
 /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/releases/6.3-RELEASE on the local
 ftp server?
 
 The symbolic link is added to
 /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/releases/6.3-RELEASE/6.3-RELEASE
 
 A mirror of ftp.freebsd.org will set this correctly. A
 copy from CDROM/iso will not have the link.
 
 -Byron-
 --- Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
 
 > Byron Young wrote:
 > 
 > > After creating a local 6.3-RELEASE using the
 > attached script, to avoid a "cannot find
 > packages/INDEX" error during install, a symbolic
 > 'packages -> ../packages' link must be added to
 > 6.3-RELEASE/6.3-RELEASE.
 > > 
 > >> How-To-Repeat:
 > > Attempt a 6.3-RELEASE install using custom FTP
 > URL.
 > >> Fix:
 > > Add a packages->../packages symbolic link.
 > 
 > This doesn't make much sense to me.  Why are you
 > trying to install from 
 >
 /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/6.3-RELEASE/6.3-RELEASE
 > not 
 > /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/6.3-RELEASE?
 > 
 > Kris
 > 
 > 
 
 
 
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