THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! After reading the install stuff again, and seeing this I now understand. AND, it worked like a champ.
At 02:18 PM 4/22/2005, Jerry Whitteridge wrote:
The SLES9 ftpserver requires a relative path. I had to specify ../../SLES9/INSTALLROOT in the ftp path instead of /SLES9/INSTALLROOT. After that everything worked OK -- it appears that the ftp server drops you into /home/&UID and that it uses that as the root for the FTP directories.
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 12:13 -0500, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > I went thru the same garbage. Worked fine with Sles8, but not Sles9. I > thought it might be a network problem so I installed another Sles8 > image, and made it an FTP server for SLES9 installation. Same problem. > > Turns out that the solution, in my case, was to change the FTP server > to allow a client to "chroot_local_user=YES". And then it worked fine. > This was using VSFTPD. > > I didn't try going back to Win/2000 and change the FTP server I had > there (assumming that it has the same parameter), but that did the trick > for me. > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/22/05 10:08 AM >>> > Folks, > We finally made our purchase of Suse linux. Been running some Suse > 8 > images on and off for some time in an evaluation. Closed off to the > outside > world cause I couldn't keep them patched. Now I can. SO, I get the box > and > it's Suse 9 enterprise 64 bit. Okay what the hey, I figure I might as > well > install it. Well after fighting off network issues, VLAN unaware 8 > images > -vs- VLAN aware 9 image, I get the yast portion. I was used to using > VNC, > but I can't get that to fire up YAST, so I switch to SSH. OKAY, now I > have > YAST running and all my disk stuff and partitioning, but it can't find > the > install stuff. I get a Cannot read package data from installation > media. > Error no proposal. So I search some and I find some posts on it > regarding > specific drive paths and a pointer of some doc that I find on cd1. SO, > is > it really true that I can no longer just FTP from a cdrom on my lap > top, > that I'm going to have to copy the cd's to a place and make sure the > paths > are correct? IF so, why did an install process that was so danged easy > migrate to this? I'm highly urinated on a Friday at this point. > > > Brian W. France > Systems Administrator (Mainframe) > Pennsylvania State University > Administrative Information Services - Infrastructure/Sysarc > Rm 25 Shields Bldg., University Park, Pa. 16802 > 814-863-4739 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 > or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- Jerry Whitteridge Safeway Inc. PH: 925 951 4184 Fax:925 951 4204
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