From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 30 15:34:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75163106566B for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B0468FC1A for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jnielsen.socialserve.com (office.socialserve.com [208.60.89.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n9UFYdps081959; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:34:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:34:33 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <6B0BC25C3907417B8B994665E23677BA@ois.lt> In-Reply-To: <6B0BC25C3907417B8B994665E23677BA@ois.lt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910301134.34071.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Vadim Maksimenko Subject: Re: Failure to do netinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:41 -0000 On Friday 30 October 2009 03:12:29 Vadim Maksimenko wrote: > I have faced an unpleasant fact that your netinstall ability of 7.2 > RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 are dead. My network card is being identified and > initialized properly (an old 3com980), it gets DHCP setup (IP, gateway, DNS > info is ok), but... That's all that is done properly. When I try to select > any flavor of network install, it crashes with a message like "Cannot > connect bla bla bla: the connect is in wrong state." I just did a network installation of 8.0-RC2 yesterday (albeit from an 8.0-RC1 bootonly CD) so I'm fairly certain it's not totally broken. Since you apparently got a valid DHCP lease on your NIC it's probably not the card or the driver that's broken either > What should I do now if I want to install FreeBSD via network and have > no option of changing the hardware? We need to figure out what _is_ wrong. Can you provide more details of the exact steps you took during the setup? Do you have the exact error message? Guessing wildly, it's entirely possible that sysinstall got confused at some point. Did you have to repeat the network configuration or FTP server selection? Did you try repeating the installation after a reboot? JN