Re: Problems loading NetBSD on an ANTSLE box

[Robert Nestor <rnestor%mac.com@localhost>]

So are you trying to install NetBSD as an Antlet or trying to install to the bare metal?  In my installs I totally wiped out AntOS and installed to bare metal.  If you’re installing to bare metal have you tried installing to each of the SSDs?  AntOS makes the two SSDs look like a single disk using ZFS, but if you install over the top of AntOS then you’ll have two disks and can choose either one to install to.

BTW, I found Antsle support to be pretty much useless.  They wouldn’t give me any details on almost anything.  They really don’t want their customers opening the box, installing their own upgrades or removing AntOS from the box.  They’d like to keep you boxed into just using the system the way they intended which is to run everything under AntOS and have them do any HW upgrades for you.

On Dec 14, 2018, at 11:44 AM, Palmer, John <jpalmer%utilinc.com@localhost> wrote:

> No - I didn't do anything like that (open it up). I have one Linux instance running on it and its fine. I've installed NetBSD versions 3.0, 4.0.1, 5.0, 7.0 and 8.0 and they all have the same issue with the file systems.
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> I'm not using Xen - just the standard install.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Nestor <rnestor%mac.com@localhost> 
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 11:28
> To: Palmer, John <jpalmer%utilinc.com@localhost>; NetBSD Users <NetBSD-Users%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Subject: Re: Problems loading NetBSD on an ANTSLE box
> 
> I've got one of those boxes and I did have NetBSD loaded on it not long after I got it.  I bought one with the minimal internal disk setup, two 120G Kingston SSDs, and installed my own additional disk drives for more storage.
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> I was using an earlier version of NetBSD and bought it to set up some xen images, but then found out the SOC Antsle uses doesn't support everything needed to run all the modes xen is capable of.  Had the same problem with trying to install FreeBSD on it and ended up just putting MintLinux on it instead.  I think it works better with MintLinux than the OS they shipped with it, but it still isn't what I thought when I bought it.
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> It sounds to me like you've got a HW problem though.  You didn't by chance open the box to do any upgrades did you?  When you pull it apart you have to be very careful of some of the springs, screws and make sure you replace the thermal paste for the CPU.
> 
> -bob