On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, 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. 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. 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).
>
> Any ideas as to what I am overlooking? I know that it can be done because
> others have done it.
I installed mine using http off a mirror.
I don't know anything about vsftpd, so can't help you there. When I used
RHL, wu-ftpd was installed and that worked out of the box (with the
anonftp package).
If you have a problem with NFS, it can be hell to sort out because there
are so few messages.
OTOH http gives you good messages, so long as you reach the webserver,
and setting that up isn't too hard. Here's my virtual host setup:
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.1 202.72.179.2>
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot /var/ftp/pub/linux/debian-www
ServerName debian.computerdatasafe.com.au
ServerAlias debian
ScriptAlias /s/ "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian-www/s"
Alias /debian/ "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian/debian/"
Alias /debian-sarge/ "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian-sarge/"
ErrorLog logs/debian-error_log
CustomLog logs/debian-access_log combined
<Directory "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian-www">
AllowOverride None
Options FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian">
AllowOverride None
Options FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian-sarge">
AllowOverride None
Options FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian-www/installer">
AllowOverride None
Options FollowSymLinks Execcgi
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian-www/s">
AllowOverride None
Options FollowSymLinks Execcgi
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
My setup may be a little more elaborate than you need: probably an alias
like this:
Alias /debian/ "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian/debian/
and a stanza like this:
<Directory "/var/ftp/pub/linux/debian">
AllowOverride None
Options FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from 192.168
</Directory>
will suffice.
All my accesses are logged to logs/debian-access_log, and my failures to
logs/debian-error_log - the latter is especially useful as it tells me
where the webserver thinks my repository should be.
--
Cheers
John.
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