Subject: Trouble installing on IBM z50
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: Florian Cramer <cantsin@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/01/2003 16:19:17
Hi,
I have the following problems installing both NetBSD 1.5.3 and NetBSD
1.6 on an IBM z50 with 48 MB RAM, a NE2000-compatible
10/100 Mbit 16bit PCMCIA Ethernet adaptor and a 256 MB CF card:
- The installation kernel boots ok & detects the Ethernet card, the
first installation steps including partitioning/formatting the CF card
proceed smoothly.
- The installation fails to fetch the installation tarballs. Let me
specify:
+ Networking parameters are correctly defined, pings to other hosts
work as they should.
+ The installer manages to open an FTP connection: The prompt of the
server appears, "250 CWD command successful" appears five times.
+ Next messages:
local: kern-GENERIC.tgz remote: kern-GENERIC.tgz
500 EPSV not understood
227 Entering Passive Mode (130,133,1,100,188,61)
+ The FTP program then opens a binary connection, receives
kern-GENERIC.tgz, gets stuck at 0% transfer rate and times out
after a while
- The error is reproducible with various NetBSD FTP mirrors I tried.
- Timeouts also occur when I try to install by NFS.
- Outside sysinst, I manage to download small (ASCII) files by FTP,
but get the same problems with larger (binary or ASCII) files.
Is it possible that I got hit by the timing problems (?) with z50 and
PCMCIA NICs I read in the archive of this list? If so, is there a
patched installation kernel for z50?
Sorry if I made some stupid mistake (I'm a NetBSD newbie coming from
Debian GNU/Linux).
-F
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