Hello everyone! I have problem with reinstalling router OS on RB5009UG+S+IN. I followed up all tutorials and read all articles related to this topic and couldn’t see my router in netinstall list.
I disabled antivirus, firewall, all ethernets.
Can someone help about this? I don’t know what else should I do.
para H has all my advice… - https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=182373
Usually, I can get Linux to see it if Windows won’t (so if all fails try the Linux netinstall).
Agreeing with @mikrotiknetme and using Linux (if still not having any luck with Windows)
I beat my head against this one for well over 3 months (off and on…) and was finally successful with an old HP laptop running Linux. Now whether it makes a difference or not - I did put a dumb switch in between the laptop and my CCR2004-16G-2S+ (included model for general reference). Worth mentioning is that I used the CLI method.
On windows it is impossible. I did it success on Ubuntu. I just followed this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiVwzHwQq_Y&ab_channel=MikroTik
If it fails for you, for some reason independent of you or not,
it is not said that the others fail,
assumed that the cable, the PC and the routerboard are not faulty…
Rephrased: On Windows it can be very tricky.
Plenty of people only using Windows for netinstall. So it is not impossible.
But it seems a lot more factors are at play when using that OS. Miss one of those and chances are high it will not work.
Having said that, I also prefer Linux for netinstall. Just yesterday did another one first time right.
I’ve done netinstall on windows 10 many times, but it usually doesn’t work right away. I just have to keep trying over and over and over until it works. It usually takes 30 minutes to 1 hour of trying before it works for me.
1 hour ? 
Let’s see:
)10 to 15 minutes max.
It’s easier than that, since I have linux running already (dual boot). I wasn’t aware it worked better on linux.
I also seem to forget, or doubt myself when it doesn’t work. Do I plug it into the “Internet” port or “eth2”? Do I use the default 192.168.88.x or do I use the 192.168.3.x that I had set it to previously? So I also end up trying those different things.
Regardless of OS:
Always use Internet/Wan/Eth1 port (whatever it is called on the device you want to handle).
On my Linux box (old Dell laptop from 2007 running lubuntu )
I set PC ethernet port to 192.168.88.2 and netinstall towards 192.168.88.3 (in order to avoid any mixup with .88.1)
Remember to use sudo
sudo .//netinstall-cli -a 192.168.88.3 routeros-[TYPE]-[VERSION].npk
(optional -r to reset config)
When following the list above, many people get lost already at first item (“take what what from where?”). I guess this highly correlates with willingness to only use webfig for doing administration (and reluctance to leave quickset behind).
Very true.
On linux everytime use -r option…
Must be default like on windows version…
Some people do netinstall with linux successfully but the device still locked because linux version without -r do not remove problematic configuration…