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.
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xInstallation completed with some errors. You may wish to x
xscroll through the debugging messages on VTY1 with the x
xscroll-lock feature. You can also choose "No" at the next
x
xprompt and go back into the installation menus to retry x
xwhichever operations have failed. x
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I have confirmed that FTP and NFS are both working.
Since this is a headless serial connection, and I can't see what VTY1 says,
what would the best way to diagnose this be? Is there a way to redirect the
output somewhere?
Thanks,
-Ben
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Benjamin Francom
Information Technology Executive
http://www.benjaminfran.com
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
On 18/08/10 05:57, Benjamin Francom 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 > >G'day Ben, It does work - I've done it a number of times. I presume that you've seen my guide at http://menhennitt.com.au/wordpress/2009/07/05/installing-freebsd-on-a-soekris-net5501-using-pxe-and-dnsmasq#more-14 and Jeremy's at http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install_8.html Also, there's a Soekris mailing list that often has stuff that's more Soekris specific - http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech I seem to remember having the same problem that you're having at one stage, but unfortunately, I can't remember the solution. Hope this helps, Graham