Installing from FTP: unable to transfer the GENERIC distribution

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sat Apr 24 20:20:05 UTC 2010


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On 24/04/2010 20:51:40, Антон Клесс wrote:
> Good day. I am trying to install 8.3-RELEASE on remote servers using
> "bootonly" ISO image connected through IPMI virtual media and then choosing
> FTP as installation media to get distributions.

Excellent.  You must tell us the secrets of being able to download
through a timewarp: I'm sure some of the devs would just love to be able
to cut'n'paste all that future code, rather than spend all the effort of
writing it in the first place.

Oh.  Perhaps you mean 7.3-RELEASE ?

> There are 2 similiar servers. On first one all gone OK and I get working
> system, but on second - nothing wants to go OK. After choosing FTP-server
> from list in sysinstall (I have already tryed about 10 of them) GENERIC
> distribution starts to download, and progress-bar as usual moving to 100%,
> but then I get message

Suspect hardware on the second system?  Try escaping to the shell
(Alt-F4) after pulling down some of the distribution sets and see if
'netstat -i' shows interface errors.  Try swapping out network cables,
new switch ports, different NIC on the server you're installing (if
possible).  Check for stupid errors like duplex mismatch --- locking
down the speed on the switch and letting the server autoneg (or vice
versa) is a favourite foot-shooting mechanism.

	Cheers

	Matthew

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