I had the same kind of error. Of the many things I tried, the following
seemed to "cause things to work".
On your FTP server machine (assumming zLinux):
Yast
Network Services
Network Services (inetd)
Enable
FTP (vsftpd)
Service is active
Accept
Finish
Quit
Joe /etc/vsftpd.conf
Uncomment:
Local_enable = yes
Write_enable = yes
Chroot_local_user=yes
Save
I seem to recall that the "chroot_local_user=yes" was the part that did
the trick. Without it, I couldn't change to the proper directory. BTW,
I also had things setup with mksles9root.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/15/2006 6:23 PM >>>
Bates, Bob wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am trying to set up an FTP server, SLES9 64-bit, to do the
rest of my installs from. The server is running, I have file systems
with s390 and s390x code, but when I attempt to do an install, it can't
read the software package list, media error?
>
> I figure I have something setup wrong. I haven't been able to
locate a document that describes how the filesystem should be set up.
Can somebody give me the name of the document? link?
>
I know this sounds like the light-bulb joke, but why FTP rather than
HTTP or NFS?
I use http because I value the logs, but in a production environment
such as yours I lean towards NFS.
My experience is mostly with RH, so this might not apply so well to
SUSE.
Using NFS, the installer can mount the install filesystem directly and
doesn't need temporary storage (such as RAM).
Using NFS the installer can loop-mount ISO images and so you don't
need
to unpack them into the install tree.
Under VM, of course, you may also have the choice of "attach 110" so
as
to install from DASD on 110 where the benefits of NFS apply.
--
Cheers
John
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