On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Dan Mack wrote:

> > > own a Class C.
> >
> > I believe they're referring to anonymous users. I switched to ftp.sunet.se
> > and that works for me.
> >
>
> Yep, ftp.sunet seems to be more up to date.  However, ftp.sunet.se has a
> different and I guess broken directory layout for a fresh NFS install.
>
> The directory  layout is something like:
>
>   Mandrake-devel/
>       contrib/
>             i586/
>
>       cooker/
>             i586/
>                 Mandrake/
>                     RPMS/
>                     RPMS2 -> ../../../../contrib/i586
>                               ^^  this no worky with NFS  ;-(
>
> The RPMS2 directory isn't going to be reachable when the NFS client does the
> install because the client ends up mounting only the portion below
> cooker/i586; everything under contrib is unavailable.
>
> Can someone in the know please illuminate us as to which layout is the
> correct layout ?
>

 Long ago was said that sunsite.uio.no was obsolete; you have to use
ftp.uninett.no and this has the same layout as ftp.sunet.se

-andrej

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