This (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/OverSSH) might be an alternative to installing over a serial console...
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ken Murphy <kenm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I gave up on my 2-day attempt to install ubuntu via debootstrap, and > have set up a pxe environment. I've been following this tutorial, to > the letter (even the ubuntu version, 7.04 Feisty Fawn): > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Soekris > > I can get the installer to start, which successfully detects the > hardware, sets up the network, and prompts me for language and > location. After that menu, however, the installer seems to go into an > infinite loop where it appears to be *trying* to draw a menu, but all > one sees is the cursor zipping down the screen over and over. I can > barely make out blinking text at the bottom of the screen that says > "<Tab> switches between options, <Space> selects, etc..." I've let > it run to see if it sorts itself out but it's been doing this for a > good 30 minutes at this point. > > I'm using minicom from a linux box to communicate with the net5501, > currently at connection speed of 57600, but I've also tried other > connection speeds (e.g. 19200). Same thing, only slower. > > I've upgraded the bios on the soekris box: comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626 > > Anyone seen this sort of behavior? > > -Ken > > ps sorry for the self-promoting sig in my previous post! I'm not > trying to spam the list, just accidentally included it. > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > -- Random quote of the week/month/whenever i get to updating it: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?": "who shall watch the watchers themselves?" - Juvenal _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
