Bug 133540

Summary:	Cannot connect to ftp mirrors for 7.2 beta boot-only
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	hobury <info>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	Enji Cooper <ngie>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	ngie
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description hobury 2009-04-09 17:10:05 UTC

A boot-only of a 7.2 beta (announced 10 apr 2009) enters sysinstall as
normal, but cannot connect to the ftp mirrors: leads to timeout. Possibly
same issue for non-amd64 machines. A boot-only reinstall on same machines
of 7.1 version works fine. Tried several mirrors from the ftp-list.

How-To-Repeat: Boot-only 64-bits 7.2 beta: sysinstall

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2009-04-10 22:39:51 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-amd64->freebsd-bugs

probably not amd64-specific.

Comment 2 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer

2009-04-17 17:17:42 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

To submitter: could you please try again with RC1, which should be available 
within a day or so?  Thanks!

Comment 3 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer

2009-04-17 17:17:42 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->gavin

Track

Comment 4 hobury 2009-04-18 14:04:31 UTC

Problem no longer occurs for 7.2 RC1 as long as one of the primary 
mirrors is selected. The country sites do not have RC1 yet. Tested for 
both amd64 and i386.

Comment 5 Tim Howe 2009-12-15 06:08:01 UTC

I am having this issue with 8.0-RELEASE amd64 CD1

I tried the install multiple times.  I tried the main FTP server, ftp4,
and ftp4.usa.openbsd.org, but all timed out.  It appears to be unable
to resolve the name, as if it is not using the DNS settings I gave it.
I confirmed I have network connectivity to the machine from a different
subnet, so IP and gateway are OK.  Also moved outside the firewall just
to test that (shouldn't matter for DNS resolution) but it always just
times out on name resolution.

All other settings checked as well...  I even did an ftp install of
OpenBSD just to make sure all network hardware was OK.

Comment 6 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer

2009-12-25 20:34:53 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Submitter reported (some time ago) that this was resolved.

Comment 7 s.bouwhuis 2009-12-31 07:31:55 UTC

This actually is an issue. Both 7.1 and 7.2 cannot be installed via 
boot-only from the mirrors. This occurs for 64-bit installations. Please 
advise on whether to reopen this issue or open a new one.

Comment 8 Gavin Atkinson freebsd_committer

2009-12-31 12:00:15 UTC

State Changed
From-To: closed->open

Two more reports that this is still an issue

Comment 9 ferdinand.goldmann 2010-12-28 15:24:26 UTC

I just experienced the very same problem trying to install from
FreeBSD-8.2-BETA1-amd64-bootonly.iso. After entering the FTP installation 
options, the system would respond with "cannot resolve hostname 
ftp.at.freebsd.org".

I tried both DHCP and static IP - with the same result.

The system I tried to install is an HP DL360 G7.

I ended up installing from FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso, which 
worked without any problems.

So, this bug still seems to exist ... :-(

-- 
 >> Ferdinand Goldmann
 >> Johannes Kepler University Linz - Server Systems/Information Management
 >> Mail: Ferdinand.Goldmann@jku.at
 >> Phone: 00437024689398 Mobile: 0043664602468133

Comment 10 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer

2015-11-15 05:57:43 UTC

sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in 9.0-RELEASE and this release has been EOL for some time.

Closing.