13.0-RELEASE bsdinstall failure : looked for MANIFEST in wrong place (not with *.txz files)

[Mark Millard]

Booted RPi4 via micrsd card dd'd from:

FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img

I attempted a bsdinstall onto a USB3 SSD. The following
reports what happened.

# bsdinstall

default keymap Select
Hostname OK
ftp mirror OK
Auto (ZFS) OK
Install Select
stripe OK
[*] da0 OK
Last Chance! da0 YES

Error while fetching
file:///usr/freebsd-dist/MANIFEST │
: No such file or directory

OK
Exit

NOTE: the path is /usr/freebsd-dist/MANIFEST instead
of /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/MANIFEST but . . .

# df -m
Filesystem             1M-blocks Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ufs/rootfs            28862 3217  23336    12%    /
devfs                          0    0      0   100%    /dev
/dev/msdosfs/MSDOSBOOT        49   24     25    49%    /boot/msdos
tmpfs                         50    0     49     1%    /tmp
zroot/ROOT/default        197406  183 197222     0%    /mnt
zroot/tmp                 197222    0 197222     0%    /mnt/tmp
zroot/usr/home            197222    0 197222     0%    /mnt/usr/home
zroot/usr/ports           197222    0 197222     0%    /mnt/usr/ports
zroot/usr/src             197222    0 197222     0%    /mnt/usr/src
zroot/var/audit           197222    0 197222     0%    /mnt/var/audit
zroot/var/crash           197222    0 197222     0%    /mnt/var/crash
zroot/var/log             197222    0 197222     0%    /mnt/var/log
zroot/var/mail            197222    0 197222     0%    /mnt/var/mail
zroot/var/tmp             197222    0 197222     0%    /mnt/var/tmp
zroot                     197222    0 197222     0%    /mnt/zroot

# ls -Tla /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/
total 187454
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel          4 Apr  9 07:39:20 2021 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel          6 Apr  9 07:39:20 2021 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  165248188 Apr  9 07:39:20 2021 base.txz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   26552108 Apr  9 07:39:21 2021 kernel.txz

# ls -Tla /usr/freebsd-dist/
ls: /usr/freebsd-dist/: No such file or directory


NOTE: creating /usr/freebsd-dist/ with a copy of the MANIFEST
file in it was enough to get past this issue: it is doing
Archive Extraction now.

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Mark Millard
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