On Wednesday, 11/15/2006 at 04:04 EST, Stephen Nichols/Endicott/IBM wrote: > If not, it might be important to note that (as I understand it) the install > directory used with an FTP install is relative to the home of the FTP user > whose credentials you supply, not the root of the file system. So if you > type "/sles9/cd1" for the install location and the home directory of the > FTP user is /home/user1, then the install tree will have to be in > /home/user1/sles9/cd1, not /sles9/cd1 (if you make the FTP user's home be > "/", then relative == absolute).
FWIW, one of my colleagues reports that a SLES10 install using the FTP server on the HMC (Console Actions -> Enable FTP Access to Mass Storage Media) required that "." be specified as the path name to get all stages of the YAST install to work correctly. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
