Not quite true. I tried a couple of FTP servers on my Win2K box for installing SuSE on S/390 and they failed, indeed. Finally I used War FTP Daemon on my Win2K box and it worked perfectly. It's freeware so you might want just look it up on the net. Or I might send it to you, if you want.
The problem is that some SuSE install files' names begin with a dot (like ".boot" for instance) and most FTP-servers for Windows are not able to interpret such filenames correctly. However, War FTP Daemon has no problems with it. Also, be very careful when stating paths to your FTP archive. Are you sure you should use drive letters ? Have you defined an anonymous user and granted it privileges ? Maciek ------ Maciej Ksiezycki Systems Programmer Unizeto - Computing Centre http://www.unizeto.pl -----Original Message----- Don't use a windows box as your FTP server as it won't support the "Rockridge" extensions that are needed to access all files on the CD (or = CD image). (This is not addressing your original problem but will save your arse down the line. Usually for FTP servers under windows - at least the one's I've used - you specify a "root" for the server when configuring. = For example, the one my machine equates c:\work\download to /, so when a user comes in they start at that point.) > > Trying to install via FTP SUSE for 390 !! have got past the > yast portion > of disk formats, and then onto the FTP installation... > I have the SUSE disks on another system on the LAN, and am running a > ftpserver to serve these files there and have a PASV port 22 > setup to serve > it. > However I cannot figure out the directory path to use ??? > I have tried C:/suse/cd1/suse > and the orig cd drive: G:/ > and they all fail to get me into the saved setup' phase.... > I have also tried the ftp.suse.com with the suse directories > for the s390 > installation, but these also FAIL... > Someone has done this, can somebody point me to my mistake please ?? > Im going more NUTS !!!
