From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 31 21:55:07 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 7AD60106566C for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:55:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f190.google.com (mail-px0-f190.google.com [209.85.216.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0128FC17 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi28 with SMTP id 28so2504304pxi.7 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:55:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=Yue6Cxt/i3sJylexYafMgj+GDUdg/QKe0nayhemEV8I=; b=raV+ADE88heTvWKwj/zgBe51vpTohuBR55f9elr9u2p9qrosoDmwJB02R8oM/UiBeW 4edkNg3FnNZVvXvr5mU6/OwUVTT+PGSTs6eLIRTqNLTuJuLGb9E1XVKErzqcdZQRa5o6 ax1RuqCaF3M1FVEezv7r1jADwDYoyEDSuJj2U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=ozQPgHVjONAqR8vMaOd8lLnIzutnl8XX3rqbpHhG1aLC45hQAZM4qmnU9xOI4ErtKW ZCJF8SZwMo9m2KQjnXMTsAEuZ0uVYt20oHagiBD3CnvKWyB+6lhxkEAeffKUXDa9F3Rm lEkfmdou4W4xKLdMzafTv0lEdhsfvqkujVGJk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: sektie@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.152.26 with SMTP id z26mr290935wfd.324.1257026106940; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:55:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910301134.34071.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <6B0BC25C3907417B8B994665E23677BA@ois.lt> <200910301134.34071.lists@jnielsen.net> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:55:06 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9080398cddd3416c Message-ID: From: Randi Harper To: John Nielsen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Vadim Maksimenko , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:55:07 -0000 On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:34 AM, John Nielsen 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