Supermicro IPMI

Cromulent · 24 Oct 2024 at 08:03

I've just got my first dedicated server and I want to install FreeBSD on it but I'm slightly confused as to how to go about doing so. This is the screen I am trying to use:

If I click save or mount not much seems to happen. To be honest I'm not sure what I am doing.

If someone could give some tips I would really appreciate it!

LostCorpse · 24 Oct 2024 at 08:24

not used it my self, but the photo indicates the media/iso isnt mounted (see the unmount options is greyed out).

Cromulent · 24 Oct 2024 at 08:36

LostCorpse said:
not used it my self, but the photo indicates the media/iso isnt mounted (see the unmount options is greyed out).

Thank you.

That is what I thought but wasn't sure if I was doing something weird. I mean does it need to be available on FTP or HTTP?

Armageus · 24 Oct 2024 at 08:41

I would have thought that was more for access to an ISO on a local drive (or at least SMB Share) rather than on an FTP server?

Cromulent · 24 Oct 2024 at 09:31

Armageus said:
I would have thought that was more for access to an ISO on a local drive (or at least SMB Share) rather than on an FTP server?

You are probably right but I'm not sure. I'll open a ticket and see what the host says. Thank you.

OldKitMan · 24 Oct 2024 at 10:10

not used supermicro but is there any option on virtual media tab to mount an iso from your desktop pc?

If wanting to use cd-rom option then you'll need to have it on some sort of NFS mount or similar.

Other option is to find something like remote console and it might have options for something like 'KVMS' -> Storage where you can likely mount an image from your local PC and then change the BIOS to book from CD which will be passed through.

Cromulent · 24 Oct 2024 at 17:55

Thank you all! Figured it out. I'm an idiot.

The ISO image needs to be shared from a Samba share. I'll just spin a cheap VPS to handle things like that.

LostCorpse · 24 Oct 2024 at 21:42

openmediavault prob would have done that for you for free, if its for local access

BusError · 31 Oct 2024 at 05:19

Might want to try with a file:// prefix -- a naked pathname like that is unlikely to work....
SuperMicro IMPI is very primitive!

On Holiday · 6 Nov 2024 at 22:28

Remote Control -> Java Console -> Virtual Media -> ISO
Netboot.xyz.iso

chrislip · 17 Nov 2024 at 13:48

My original post was deleted by a mod so I'll just say that you need a license to be able to mount local ISOs