No suggestions, yet, but a question. Are there any sort of firewalls or proxies between you and the FTP server?
Well, one suggestion. If I were you, I would try using NFS instead of FTP. I've always had better luck installing SUSE over an NFS mount. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SLES Installation: extended passive mode? I'm trying to install SLES 8 using FTP from a Linux PC that I control. The install process hangs after I specify the installation directory. If I aim the installation process at another PC with a Windows FTP daemon, the process quickly fails because the installation files aren't there. If I do an FTP from the command prompt to the Linux PC, I get logged cleanly, but when I do, for example, an "ls", I get a message: 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||1263|) And then, eventually, the process times out. Clearly, FTP daemon on the Linux PC isn't playing well with the FTP client on the SLES image on the mainframe. The Linux PC is a SuSE Profession 8.2 system at the moment; the daemon is the "ftpd" daemon, which is described as "The BSD FTP daemon." Either I need to use a "better" FTP daemon on the PC, or I need to somehow tell the FTP client on the SLES8 system I'm installing not to go into "extended passive" mode. I'm open to suggestions about which way is better; very specific suggestions are most welcome. Thanks, Nick
