On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:46:44AM -0500, McKown, John wrote: > I'm obviously doing something really stupid. I'm running RH 9.0 on my Intel > box at home. I run Hercules/390 2.17.1 to create an S/390 environment. I > ipl'ed the Debian 3.0r1 (woody) install on this. I get IP connectivity from > the installation program to the RH 9.0 host. I can format the 3390-3 > emulated DASD just fine. But when I try to install the kernel, I'm dead in > the water. I tried using the "ftp" method. Apparently I have something set > up wrong on RH 9.0 (vsftpd) because "anonymous" cannot see much of anything. > I can't figure out this problem, I spent about 3 hours last night trying to > configure vsftpd correctly and got nowhere. I noticed that the "ftp" method > used wget. I could "invoke a shell" on the Debian install and found that if > I used the form: wget ftp://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]//... that I could get to > the files. However when I try to use that form in the installation dialog, > the installer takes the "userid" as the hostname and dies.
Hmm, I have not encountered this before, but I have never had cause to try to install Debian from a password-protected source. Since all of Debian is freely redistributable, there is normally no need to protect it from anyone. :-) You would probably have an easier time setting up Apache and using HTTP than setting up vsftpd. > So, I tried using the NFS method. I set up the exports correctly. I know > they work because I can use another Linux system on my LAN to do an NSF > mount of the Debian installation directory on my RH 9.0 system. But all I > get when I try on Debian is "incorrect parameter" or some such thing. "Invalid argument". This is a known problem; NFSv3 does not work correctly with the installation kernel. http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.30073 You can work around the issue by using NFSv2 (mount -o nfsvers=2). > Again, this was trying using the "invoke a shell" function on the Debian > install, using the "mount" command. I plan to create a 3390-9 volume next. > I will then IPL the installation tape, do an "invoke a shell" and use the > wget command that I got working to copy the installation files from the RH > 9.0 to the filesystem on the 3390-9 volume (they should all fit). That should work as well. -- - mdz
