Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:53:01 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Benjamin Francom <bfrancom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Soekris Sysinstall FTP & NFS Failure Message-ID: <20100817225301.00001f83@unknown> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimbeW2u6EAkQ8MZd5ADzgbtFgavgKrRYwDoZRrM@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimbeW2u6EAkQ8MZd5ADzgbtFgavgKrRYwDoZRrM@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:57:55 -0700 Benjamin Francom <bfrancom@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a Soekris net5501, and need some assistance with the > installation [FreeBSD 8.1]. I've configured a PXE environment with > TFTP, and NFS, and I can boot and get into sysinstall. After going > through the initial configuration, slices, setting the IP address > (DHCP), and proceeding with an FTP installation, it fails. It's like > it cannot see the ftp site. I've also tried NFS with the same > problem. As far as I can tell, netinstall is broken on all recent releases. Using a static IP address seems to get further in that you don't get an immediate error, but instead you get returned to the list of FTP servers after a minute. -- Bruce Cran
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