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chillobill
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Jan 22, 2017

Installing Software (CLI)

We have a pretty slow out-of-band connection to a new pair of F5's and transferring the ISO via the GUI keeps timing out so I decided to transfer the image via ftp and into the /shared/images folder....
application delivery
BIG-IP
TMSH
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Niels_van_Sluis
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Jan 22, 2017

It looks alright. I just tried it on my own BIG-IP and it just works.

[root@nielsvs-bigip:Active:Standalone] images  ls -la
total 4872308
drwxrwxr-x.  3 root   tomcat       4096 2016-11-11 14:38 .
drwxr-xr-x. 32 root   root         4096 2016-11-11 15:22 ..
-rw-r--r--.  1 tomcat tomcat 1803024384 2016-07-01 11:59 BIGIP-12.0.0.0.0.606.iso
-rw-r--r--.  1 root   root   1997744128 2016-11-11 14:29 BIGIP-12.1.1.0.0.184.iso
-rw-r--r--.  1 tomcat tomcat  702025728 2016-07-01 11:40 Hotfix-BIGIP-12.0.0.3.0.654-HF3.iso
-rw-r--r--.  1 tomcat tomcat  481513472 2016-11-11 14:38 Hotfix-BIGIP-12.1.1.2.0.204-HF2.iso
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root   root         4096 2016-07-01 13:21 tmp
[root@nielsvs-bigip:Active:Standalone] images  tmsh install sys software image BIGIP-12.1.1.0.0.184.iso create-volume volume HD1.4
[root@nielsvs-bigip:Active:Standalone] images  tmsh show sys software

---------------------------------------------------------------
Sys::Software Status
Volume  Product  Version    Build  Active                Status
---------------------------------------------------------------
HD1.1    BIG-IP   11.5.4  0.0.256      no              complete
HD1.2    BIG-IP   12.0.0  3.0.654      no              complete
HD1.3    BIG-IP   12.1.1  2.0.204     yes              complete
HD1.4    BIG-IP   12.1.1  0.0.184      no  installing 0.000 pct

Maybe you could try to reboot and try again. I also noticed your box has no license. Try to fix that first.