RE: Prpblems installing 4.7-RELEASE

On 24-Oct-2002 Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install 4.7-RELEASE from an FTP-server. When most of the
> system is installed (after when the ports are installed in /usr),
> sysinstall suddenly says that it cannot find the INDEX-file from the
> selected media type, when it tries to install the packages. Sysinstall
> quits and returns to the main menu. After that I tried to "perform any
> pending extract actions" (in Custom Installation Options), but then it
> says it cannot resolve ftp.freebsd.org, but a moment before it worked
> fine!
> 
> Does anyone knows how to install from here?

Ok, I guess when the alpha 4.7 packages were uploaded, no one put
the packages symlink in the 4.7 release directory.  I've just fixed
it on ftp-master and it should propagate out to other ftp servers
in a few hours.  This should fix the problem with no INDEX file.
Sorry for the delay.

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