If you only need a couple of files, sure. But when you're trying to install an entire distribution? Only if you've got a few GB of free space on your /tmp file system.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex deVries Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES Installation: extended passive mode? How about just using scp? It's much simpler. e.g. on your ia32 Linux system, run: scp <file-to-transfer> root@<ip-address-of-instance>:/tmp - Alex Nick Laflamme wrote: > Post, Mark K wrote: > >> No suggestions, yet, but a question. Are there any sort of firewalls >> or proxies between you and the FTP server? >> > > There's a firewall in place, but I can FTP from the Linux guest to > another PC in my office OK, and I can FTP from a CMS user on the same > side of the firewall to the Linux PC in question. I don't think the > firewall is an issue. > >> 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. >> > > Said firewall rules out NFS. > >> Mark Post >> >> > > Nick >
