I tried that but the installed kept saying various rpms were missing - even
though they were there - very weird.
Install is now complete - I created an FTP server on Ubuntu on a separate
PC - mounted the DVD and served it back to the installer from there - once
this was setup the install occurred without incident is a couple of hours.
Thanks to all for assistance.
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From: "Agblad Tore" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:17 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
Hi, About the DVD and the symlinked files problem,
just take the sym links and move the real files to the linked places, it
works fine after that :)
Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga
Hälsningar
Tore Agblad
Volvo Information Technology
Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development
SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/
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From: Linux on 390 Port [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bern VK2KAD
[[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 04:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
Hi
I was encouraged to try this technique - I can see the file structure but
the symbolic links are still unresolved.
I copied the iso to a USB thumb drive which found a home at H: - I then
mapped an E: drive from the ISO using a free "Mount'n'Drive manager from
DAEMON tools lite. The iso contents are successfully shown on the E:
drive
but the symbolic links just look like empty datasets - a 0KB file.
I then tried a linux ftp server called vsftpd which I installed using
apt-get. Everyting looks fine - ftp'ing into the ftp server gives the
expected results and the install tree looks correct and the symbolic links
actually work.
Unfortunately, when I try to connect to this server via the RedHat
installer, all I get on the log is "Couldn't connect to server"
My next attempt is work out how to create a NFS connection - more reading
needed.
B.
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From: "Clovis Pereira" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 10:47 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
Hi,
My circunvention to it, is copy the entire DVD as one .iso file to WinXP,
mount the .iso as a virtual driver and enable it to FTP server. This
preserve all DVD structures.
There are a lot of free programs to create the .iso file and to create
the
virtual drivers.
______________________________________________
Clovis
From:
Alan Altmark <[email protected]>
To:
[email protected]
Date:
06/12/2010 01:41
Subject:
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
Sent by:
Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]>
On Sunday, 12/05/2010 at 05:44 EST, Bern VK2KAD <[email protected]>
wrote:
My next issue was the file structure on the DVD - my FTP server is
Filezilla
running on XP - I simply copied the DVD contents to a folder on the FTP
server - alas this created another problem - the symbolic links for
repodata
and packages weren't handled properly
Actually, the problem is not the file structure, but Windows XP itself.
Windows Vista is the first version of Windows to include support for
symbolic links in NTFS. Hopefully MS added the support to the CD/DVD
drivers as well.
Alan Altmark
z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant
IBM System Lab Services and Training
ibm.com/systems/services/labservices
office: 607.429.3323
[email protected]
IBM Endicott
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