Re: OpenBSD install via FTP/HTTP fails...

["STeve Andre'" <andres@msu.edu>]

I'm not really sure this applies to you, but its easy enough to try.  There are
some known problems with installs on 8M systems.

In the FAQ (http://openbsd.org/faq/install-i386.html#8meg) there is a neat
workaround for systems with little memory.  Usually the problem is seen
father alongin the install, but you might be seeing the same kind of problem
too.

Anyway, I'd say try that--you can't lose much and it won't take long.

Good luck with it!

--STeve Andre'

At 12:22 AM 10/5/00 -0400, Eric D. Means wrote:
>PC: Packard Hell 486SX/33 with 8MB RAM (soon to be upgraded!), 15.3GB HDD
>(not recognized by the BIOS, but BSD sees it just fine), CD-ROM is
>nonfunctional (at the moment or permanently, I know not), and a D-Link
>DE-220PCT ISA Ethernet Card.
>
>Partition Disk (100MB /, 64 MB swap, 50 MB /tmp, 1GB /usr, 4GB /var, 100MB
>/var/spool/mail, ~9GB /home).
>
>Configure Network? [y] y
>... through the network process. I'm running DSL through a Netgear RT311
>(configured as 192.168.0.1, DHCP server) into a hub, which splits off to
>my primary PC and the server. My primary PC is 192.168.0.2.
>DHCP configuration is successful; the server grabs address 192.168.0.4
>(dunno why not 3, but it's 4 every time). Default route is set to
>192.168.0.1 (default), nameserver set to same (as per configuration of my
>primary PC as reported by winipcfg).
>
>Do you wish to install via (f)tp, (h)ttp, ...
>If I choose ftp, everything seems to work fine including pulling down a
>list of servers; I pick one, and it gives me the choices of
>packages. Whether I change or accept the default, the next step is always
>the same. It tries to download base27.tgz, but before the file even gets
>started it prints, "'EPSV': command not recognized" and just stops. No
>network blinkenlights (except the Link light), nothing -- even
>CTRL-ALT-DEL and CTRL-C merely print control sequences on the screen.
>I've tried this with about 4 different FTP servers plus an FTP server
>(WAR-FTPD) running on my primary PC.
>
>HTTP doesn't work at all. It won't pull down a list of possible servers at
>all, and when I pointed it to a webserver running on my primary PC it
>couldn't find the files even though I verified that they were accessible
>at that address.
>
>I've tried multiple installation floppies, downloaded the floppy image
>from multiple sites; same problem.
>
>I don't have a CD-R or any OpenBSD CDs, getting the files onto a HD and
>doing a "local install" is difficult right now, and I can't do NFS.
>
>
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