i386/116848: Diskless Booting - make distribution fails with Error Code 64

[Bill Tillman]

>Number:         116848
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Diskless Booting - make distribution fails with Error Code 64
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 03 00:40:07 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bill Tillman
>Release:        6.2-STABLE
>Organization:
Steel Erection Services
>Environment:
FreeBSD1.msi.sterc.com 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Sun Sep 30 12:17:35 EDT 2007 root at FreeBSD1.msi.sterc.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mykernel i386
>Description:
I have been trying to get a server setup to serve some diskless clients. Everyone tells me that diskless is a snap...but the docs leave me wanting to swallow a cyanid pill...been at this a long time and at least I'm convinced that something must be outdated in the docs or diskless just doesn't work anymore.

I follow the steps in man diskless for pxeboot. And I have read many HOWTO articles on diskless setup with FreeBSD. But each time I try to build the server files to serve the clients with these commands:

export DESTDIR=/dksro (or I sometimes try setenv)
cd /usr/src
make world
make kernel
cd etc
make distribution

I get a dozen or so lines of text and then the process fails with this message:
install: wrong number or types of arguments
useage: install [-b-CcpSsv] [-B suffix]...etc
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