Soekris Sysinstall FTP & NFS Failure

[Bruce Cran]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:57:55 -0700
Benjamin Francom <bfrancom at 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