Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:55:06 -0700 From: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: Vadim Maksimenko <vadimax@policija.lt>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failure to do netinstall Message-ID: <e277d6c80910311455w19543397s2280d3e5e6a13f07@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910301134.34071.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <6B0BC25C3907417B8B994665E23677BA@ois.lt> <200910301134.34071.lists@jnielsen.net>
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:34 AM, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote: > 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 You might also try enabling debugging messages and seeing what's on the next tty over when it fails. -- randi
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