On 2017-10-16, Limaunion <limaun...@fibertel.com.ar> wrote: > Hi! Last friday I upgraded my ALIX system from 6.0 to 6.2 using the PXE > boot method. In previous years I used an internal FTP server to perform > the upgrade, but for some reason this is not supported any more since a > couple of releases.
ftp support was removed from the installer, but you can place the same files on an http/https server instead. > I mounted and published the ISO image using a > raspberrypi and NGINX (HTTP method). During the install process I hit > the following error 'unable to get a verified list of distribution > sets'(*). I couldn't find much help from google but after some time I > figured out that the install was looking for a file named index.txt, > that is not included in the ISO. you want nearly all of the files from the release directory on a mirror, you can skip install*.fs / install*.iso. > Maybe some of this information can be included to the install guide for > those of us doing a local HTTP upgrade, and also it would be great to > have the index.txt file included in the ISO. you won't have the SHA256.sig to verify the files against the signify signature in the iso either. > For the record, the kernel relinking (Relinking to create unique > kernel...) took about 14 minutes in my ALIX board and it takes about 2.5 > minutes the library reordering during the boot process. yes, it's terribly slow on machines with slow storage devices. I tend to disable it on those (until I can justify replacing the machine with something newer, which has other advantages too).
