From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 24 9: 4: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.tovaris.com (fw-an0.tovaris.com [209.145.84.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2511937B416 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:03:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from usda.intranet (proxy1.tovaris.com [209.145.84.44]) by fw.tovaris.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0OH3uh48650 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:03:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jmalone@tovaris.com) From: "Josh Malone" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:03:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20020124115505.L19496-100000@usda.intranet> Subject: Sysinstall hangs resolving IP for ftp install MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I recently begin using Baldwin and Saab's excellent 'pxeboot' to bootstrap a custom installation process. After much cussing at it, I finally have it TFTP pulling a (mostly GENERIC) kernel and custom mfsroot and booting into it. The machine then finds my install.cfg in the mfsroot and kicks it off to do an FTP install from our local mirror. However, once sysinstall kicks off the install.cfg, it hangs at the spot of "looking up ftp.intranet" trying to resolve our ftp server. Hitting -C at this point and restarting the installation makes it proceed normally but I'd like to fix this problem. Does anyone have any thoughts on what might cause this? Is sysinstall trying to look up the address before the interface is ready, perhaps? Could our ethernet switches be doing something bad behind our backs? I suppose it's also worth mentioning that sysinstall uses an IP address that is hard-coded into install.cfg. Any thoughts would be appreciated. -Josh Malone -------- In God we trust...everything else we use X.509 --------- Joshua Malone, Systems Administrator Phone: 434-245-5300 x119 Tovaris: The Digital Identity Company Fax: 434-245-5301 www.tovaris.com jmalone@tovaris.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message