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Jon R. Doyle
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Noll, Ralph wrote:
> what is the mount command and the type to mount my cdrom from my windows box
> to install a product from my win pc onto my linux machine
>
> mount -t ftp 10.201.18.2 /cdrom...
> zvmlinx5:/# mount -t ftp 10.201.18.2 /cdrom
> mount: fs type ftp not supported by kernel
> zvmlinx5:/#
>
> error message above
>
>
> Ralph
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Archer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SLES8 Install Problems
>
>
> WAR-FTPD is a server that will work with a Linux install, unlike microsoft
> ftp servers which only have a subset of the FTP command set. It is free and
> can be found at http://www.jgaa.com/ Now I can install Linux from my window
> workstation w/o having to bother the UNIX group to mount my CD on one of
> their FTP servers.
>
> Chapter 5, page 23 (Making the installation data available via FTP)
> describes the need for it. It works well, in fact I'm replacing my current
> FTP server with WAR-FTPD.
>
> Scott
>
>
> At 09:19 AM 02/25/2003, you wrote:
> >What is WAR-FTPD? FTPD I know, but WAR is unfamiliar to me.
> >
> >Eric Bielefeld
> >Sr. MVS Systems Programmer
> >P&H Mining Equipment
> >Milwaukee, WI
> >414-671-7849
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/24/03 04:56PM >>>
> >Okay...... solved my space problem. I'm doing an FTP install using
> >WAR-FTPD. I set the max users on the ftp server to 5 to be safe?. The
> >install logs on at least 24 times without logging off. Go figure. I set
> >the max users to 4000. Anyway.... now I can see all the packages and it
> >says I have enough room. Another tip for WAR-FTPD users is to set the file
> >access alias to /cdrom so the install can find it.
>
> **************************************************************************
> Scott Archer
>
> Mainframe Systems Administration, New Mexico State University
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> URL: http://sarcher.nmsu.edu
> Phone: (505)646-6186
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