Re: Can't Install OpenBSD 5.6 with FTP
On 2014-11-23 Sun 02:34 AM |, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote: I now must figure out how to get a http server running. After 3 hours, it isn't working yet. Make sure you've got the index.txt files. Why was this done? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade55.html#headsup FTP will no longer be an install option for 5.6. Instead, HTTP will be used. This should not impact users of public mirrors, but if you replicate internally, you may wish to make sure your files can be served by HTTP. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=139579420802409w=2 -- Spectacular footage of NZ train plowing through deep June snow http://youtu.be/6acPX_00M9Q
Re: Can't Install OpenBSD 5.6 with FTP
On 11/22/14 21:33, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote: I can't install OpenBSD 5.6 with PXE with an FTP server. I now must figure out how to get a http server running. After 3 hours, it isn't working yet. There is NO documentation on how to set up the required web server pages. I've looked. There are no examples. Not even one example. If you spent three hours getting a basic, static content web server working...you have bigger problems. (btw: PXE uses TFTP to load the kernel, a totally different protocol, and this /has not changed/) This is NOT a good thing. Right. But not for the reason you are thinking. Why was this done? FTP as a protocol should have vanished about 20 years ago. A fair number of firewall admins are starting to deal with FTP by saying get a modern protocol, and a lot more should. Please reverse this decision. no. Please bring back installing from an FTP server. no. Why break something that was working well for more than a decade?? Why reduce functionality?? *sigh* You had warning in the 5.5 upgrade page. You had notice in the 5.6 upgrade page and in numerous other locations for 5.6. I have no idea how you spend three hours setting up a basic web server, and since you provide no indication of what your problem is (er..problem with the web server is), all we can do is guess and crack jokes. I shouldn't do this, but ... * Build out your webserver machine (assuming OpenBSD and modern hw, 15 minutes) * Enable webserver in rc.conf.local. Activate webserver (1 minute) * pkg_add rsync (2 minutes) * rsync the platform directories you want to locally mirror (15 minutes for getting the rsync command right. That's a gimme anyway, you already had a process for pulling to your local mirror, that still works) * Drop those platform directories into your webserver's space (/var/www/htdocs in 5.6) * IF you wish to prune out some files, you can skip the big .iso and .fs files. You will need the SHA256* and index.txt file (note: that index.txt file is important. Webservers all give directory listings differently; this provides a standard list of files for the installer to look at. This may be your problem, but because of how you wrote your e-mail, I'm still laughing at you) * Point a browser at your new server, verify all is visible and working. * Point your installer at the same URL you used above. Not counting load times, you could build a brand new install server in well under an hour, and should be able to modify your existing server in minutes. Nick.
Re: Can't Install OpenBSD 5.6 with FTP
Note that I'm trying to install from my own private network. Yes, I could install from the servers on the web. But I have many boxes to install, and I want the installations to go fast. I don't want to pound the servers with hundreds of requests. So I want to use my own servers. And I can't. That is what I'm pissed off about. !@#$% From: Hendrickson, Kenneth Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 9:34 PM To: b...@openbsd.org; misc@OpenBSD.org Subject: Can't Install OpenBSD 5.6 with FTP I can't install OpenBSD 5.6 with PXE with an FTP server. I now must figure out how to get a http server running. After 3 hours, it isn't working yet. There is NO documentation on how to set up the required web server pages. I've looked. There are no examples. Not even one example. This is NOT a good thing. Why was this done? Please reverse this decision. Please bring back installing from an FTP server. Why break something that was working well for more than a decade?? Why reduce functionality??
Can't Install OpenBSD 5.6 with FTP
I can't install OpenBSD 5.6 with PXE with an FTP server. I now must figure out how to get a http server running. After 3 hours, it isn't working yet. There is NO documentation on how to set up the required web server pages. I've looked. There are no examples. Not even one example. This is NOT a good thing. Why was this done? Please reverse this decision. Please bring back installing from an FTP server. Why break something that was working well for more than a decade?? Why reduce functionality??
Re: Can't Install OpenBSD 5.6 with FTP
Hi Kenneth, On 22 November 2014 at 18:37, Hendrickson, Kenneth khend...@harris.com wrote: Note that I'm trying to install from my own private network. Yes, I could install from the servers on the web. But I have many boxes to install, and I want the installations to go fast. I don't want to pound the servers with hundreds of requests. So I want to use my own servers. And I can't. That is what I'm pissed off about. Have you reviewed this tutorial: http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/autoinstall I don't have any experience with the autoinstall, though. !@#$% Best, jungle --- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboo...@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boo...@jit.si
