5.4 package install woes.... :(

From: Bill Schoolcraft (runfreebsd_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/12/05

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To: bsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>

    Hello Family,

    Well, it's been two days now of watching both from work and from
    home the building of "/usr/ports/x11/kde3" and I started this
    thinking it would be an hour or two adventure for after about 19
    "inserting/reinserting" of disks 1 then 2 then 1 then 2 etc of
    just trying to do what I've always done with one install disk
    with FreeBSD.

    So, while kde3 is still building from ports I copied both full
    iso images to my new FreeBSD box in hopes of maybe mounting them
    in loopback and offering the two ISO images up via
    /stand/sysinstall as a source for packages. I cannot seem to
    get the new "mdconfig" to mount the iso's.

    Here is the command I'm using.

    (first made mount points of /mnt/loop1 and /mnt/loop2)

    ######################################################

    mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -u 1
    mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /iso/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso -u 2

    mount /dev/md1 /mnt/loop1
    mount: /dev/md1 on /mnt/loop1: incorrect super block

    mount /dev/md2 /mnt/loop2
    mount: /dev/md2 on /mnt/loop2: incorrect super block

    These two iso images are the exact same ones that worked fine
    with the install, all MD5 sums are correct.

    ######################################################

    So the deeper I dig myself into this hole the more I ask myself
    how can I just choose all my optional binary packages to install
    from the "post install" menu and just have FreeBSD-5.4 have me
    install "disk-1" once and "disk-2" once and all my package
    choices are done.

    I'm anxious to use this version of FreeBSD, been using this OS
    since the 3.4 and was really bummed out to have to post this
    email but we are all family and I have no where else to ask
    this.

    Namaste

                    
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