Re: Failure to do netinstall
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Failure to do netinstall
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Failure to do netinstall
Dear Sirs, 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." What should I do now if I want to install FreeBSD via network and have no option of changing the hardware? Yours faithfully, Vadim. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
