MikroTik

Hello.

I'm having problems getting netinstall to work with Windows 7 (64 bits). I've disabled all virtual machines network interfaces, disabled windows firewall, trend micro firewall, even the antivirus too. When I run netinstall, it executes but nothing is shown in the Routers/Drives section. I activate the net booting option and connect my routerboard properly to the machine but it doesn't boot and isn't recognized by netinstall.

i repeat exactly the same procedure using another machine with Windows XP and everything goes fine and I can reinstall my RB.

Is there any issue regarding windows 7 that prevents netinstall to work properly? Is there any trick or workaround to make it work?

The specifications of my machine are the following:

Dell Vostro 3550
Intel Core i5 460M
6 Gb RAM
Realtek Gigabit Ethernet Integrated network card
Intel Centrino Wireless Card

Thanks and best regards.

Rafael Monterroza

Hello,
i have a similar problem. I see the router in the netinstall software and if i click on install the router are flashed but the software don`t install the device. After this action i must reinstall the router on Windows XP.


Has anybody a solution?


Regards

Hi ...

Select netinstall.exe properties, set it to be executed in compatibility mode (single or all users of the pc computer). I set it to XPSP3 and works like a charm.

Regards;

I'm having the same problem with netinstall. I've tried it on two different windows 7 32-bit machines. The routerboard device does boot and wait for the installation server. Then in netinstall when I click on install the window flashes and the device reads "Ready" again. I have tried different firewall rules, different network locations and I get the same results.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

try to run it as administrator (right click, choose "run as administrator")

I did try run netinstall as Administrator. I've tried everything but I still can not get any routerboard to load with netinstall. My XP box works just fine.

Next I will try and capture the traffic on the windows 7 box to see if it sends any traffic after I click the install button. Like I said before when I click the install button the windows just flashes and the routerboard device stats retuns to ready. Usally the progress bar moves as netstall sends the install to the device.

Windows firewall can block netinstall too.

I just disable firewall and run as administrator and everything works fine.

Same problem here.

Have a RB1000 that runs 6.0beta2 and needs downgrading to 5.21.

/system package downgrade didn't work at all - I tried different NPKs to no avail. The RB just spat out heaps of error messages and then the router booted into 6.0b2 anyways.

So I tried Netinstall on my Win7 64 bit machine.

Netinstall executes, but RB doesn't boot from that. No way.

Tried running as admin/in compat mode/Firewall disabled/AV disabled... No joy.

Now uploading firmware to RB1000 via Serial/XMODEM @ a whooping 7.86KBps. I'll know if it works out in about 30 minutes..... :-/

Hi i have the same problem here with Windows 7 64 Bit Netinstall dont work. This Problem i have often here Netinstall forget it.

For me it works on w7ultimate64. You have active sime firewall/antivirus that bocks it, I would say.

after disabling every firewall and as there was no antivirus ever installed why is Netinstall not able to detect any Routerboard??

i have tried 2 different types.... 2 SXT and 1 RB450... all boot well... show up in Winbox but don't come up in Netinstall... why?

i am having 64bit Win 7.... and running Netinstall with "Admin" privilege.

You have to be really suborn pushing the reset button on the routerboard until it shows in netinstall ... can take as much as 30 seconds. The other thing is that at each device there's only single ether port that can be used for netinstall-ing. Mostly it's ether1 but might be different (mostly on CCRs).

You have to be really suborn pushing the reset button on the routerboard until it shows in netinstall ... can take as much as 30 seconds. The other thing is that at each device there's only single ether port that can be used for netinstall-ing. Mostly it's ether1 but might be different (mostly on CCRs).

i am trying it on SXT which anyways has just one Ethernet port...

and no matter how long or hard i keep it pressed... the device somehow continue to the regular boot process.... and this is happening with 2 SXT units and one RB450 board.

You can get serial cable and get some extra feedback from RB450. Maybe it will help with mastering the art of button pressing, and then you can apply it to SXTs.

true about RB450... but SXT is the issue..

also I really fail to understand what kind of "state-of-art" skill is required to keep the "reset" button pressed for Netinstall to detect it

Something I noticed recently when I tried Netinstall. Windows changes the location to "Public" which makes the firewall rules stricter, change this to "Private"

Solved Netinstall for me, below Powershell commands:

Get-NetConnectionProfile

Set-NetConnectionProfile -Name "Your Network Name" -NetworkCategory Private

It was sort of joke, it's just a stupid button after all. Although based on the result, it does look like it's not easy to press it correctly.

But the recommendation still stands, try RB450 with serial cable. I'm not expecting anything specific to happen, but for the lack of better ideas... maybe it will show you something useful.

I didn't have a problem with Netinstall personally yet, sometimes it did require more than one try, but it always worked eventually. But generally I hate these kinds of controls. "Press X second for reset, Y seconds for something else, ...", meh. Kingdom for single-purpose jumpers or something that's impossible to use wrong. And serial port for every routerboard, even incomplete with additional components required to make it work, but enabled by default and usable for pre-boot use.

Something I noticed recently when I tried Netinstall. Windows changes the location to "Public" which makes the firewall rules stricter, change this to "Private"

Solved Netinstall for me, below Powershell commands:

Get-NetConnectionProfile

Set-NetConnectionProfile -Name "Your Network Name" -NetworkCategory Private

as i mentioned earlier that i have switched off my firewall hence it should not make any difference...

Something I noticed recently when I tried Netinstall. Windows changes the location to "Public" which makes the firewall rules stricter, change this to "Private"

Solved Netinstall for me, below Powershell commands:

Get-NetConnectionProfile

Set-NetConnectionProfile -Name "Your Network Name" -NetworkCategory Private

as i mentioned earlier that i have switched off my firewall hence it should not make any difference...

Yeh, I also disabled my firewall, did not work till I changed network location to private

so now even this is "Get-NetConnectionProfile" not working on Powershell for some reason....

anyway around it.

Besides suggesting to run it as administrator, nope.

Are you getting any errors when running the command in PS? If so, what are these?

Maybe time to reinstall Windows

Besides suggesting to run it as administrator, nope.

Are you getting any errors when running the command in PS? If so, what are these?

Maybe time to reinstall Windows

I had similar issues the other day with Netinstall in Windows 8.1 which stubbornly seems to want to put my laptop's ethernet static IP onto the Public network category everytime it becomes active even if I run the Powershell script to change it. I just went into the Windows Advanced Firewall incoming list, deleted all instances of netinstall.exe and reran netinstall and selected both Public and Private when asked.

If you already have a netinstall.exe entry you can edit it's profile to enable or disable Public and Private. Of course, you have to hold the reset button down for 25+ seconds until it appears in the list which is awkward on WAPac's and run netinstall as admin to open the bootp/tftp ports on your computer.

But when the firewall is switched off... how would that matter??

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But when the firewall is switched off... how would that matter??

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I tried with the firewall off too but it didn't work either. You tell me! Until I removed all the existing netinstalls in the firewall and reran it with Public permission (in your case you need to set Private) it didn't work. The easiest thing is to make sure you set netinstall to work on Public and Private instead of trying to convert your interface from Public to Private or vice versa.

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Put a switch between the devive and PC and netinstal will work...

Sxt has inner secondary reset hole-type connector. Use it for running netinstall mode if the main reset button does not work. Maybe this could be your problem with Sxt...

Windows 7, 64 bit, netinstall works fine for me