On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > 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. > :-) >
RHL 9 is also freely redistributable: what you're controlling is access to the server, not to the data. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
