the ISO image have to be mounted with a loop back device for example mount -o loop /downloads/rhel-server-7.2-s390x-dvd.iso /var/ftp/linins/ And then you ftp into it so you can see actual content of iso image Gregory
2016-03-25 12:57 GMT-04:00 Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com>: > Background: > I have FEDORA F23 running and it is working well. > I want to use this as a FTP server for installing other distros ,, RedHat > and SUSE. > I've downloaded the ISO's from the respective vendors. > > On F23 I have started vsftp, stopped the firewall, created a directory in > /var/ftp/ called linins, mounted the ISO's there, chmod a=rwx > /var/ftp/linins > > Everything looks good. > From CMS I can FTP to the directory and download files. > > The Problem: > When I try to install either of the other OS's I get this error message: > " server denied you to change to the given directory" > > My path looks something like this: > inst.repo= > > ftp://root:mypasswordt@172.17.51.126/var/ftp/linins/rhel-server-7.2-s390x-dvd.iso > <==RedHat > > Any ideas what I am missing? > Thanks > Tom > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
