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.





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