Yes, it should work just fine; however, we don't provision the microsd
images for the installer, especially for -CURRENT. The actual OS is
fetched in plaintext to allow caching and the MANIFEST files are what
provides authentication -- they provide the checksums of the files that
get fetched so that they can be verified against corruption and
tampering. For snapshots, the current version changes all the time and
that doesn't work; it also means that network-install media have to be
set up with those checksums in advance. Where are you trying to install
to? Usually the assumption is that the microsd images *are* the
installed system rather than a tool you use to install a system.
-Nathan
On 5/4/21 3:22 PM, tech-lists wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying to set up a boot-from-usb3 raspberry pi 4. I thought
i'd be able to do this by booting into latest current snapshot image for
arm64 rpi (written to microsd), and then running bsdinstall as root.
I can select the auto-zfs option then select the usb3 disk as
installation destination. The bsdinstall selects the sets and downloads
them, but then get the error:
"error while fetching file://usr/freebsd-dist/MANIFEST : No such file or
directory"
also tried via release/13 image, same error. Looks like it's downloading
the files but then the installer can't see them, something like that.
the downloaded files are there:
root@generic:~ # ls -lah /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/
total 187454
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4B Apr 9 06:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 6B Apr 9 06:50 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 158M Apr 9 06:51 base.txz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25M Apr 9 06:51 kernel.txz
root@generic:~ #
worth submitting a PR? or is bsdinstall legacy and I need to use some
other method. I've not tried releng/12.2 yet.
thanks,
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