Thank you Grzegorz that information is most appreciated. I am sure that would have been my next problem.
Even after your suggested changes I still get this message.. [ 7.441940] dracut-initqueue[665]: Warning: can't find installer mainimage path in .treeinfo [ 7.448315] dracut-initqueue[665]: % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current [ 7.448810] dracut-initqueue[665]: Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed [ 7.466071] dracut-initqueue[665]: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 [ 7.466511] dracut-initqueue[665]: curl: (9) Server denied you to change to the given directory [ 7.468632] dracut-initqueue[665]: Warning: Downloading ' ftp://root:[email protected]/var/ftp/linins/LiveOS/squashfs.img' f ailed! On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Grzegorz Powiedziuk <[email protected] > wrote: > update, > And your ins.repo should be pointing to that directory where iso is mounted > on ftp so: > ftp://...../linins/ not to the iso image. > Gregory > > 2016-03-25 13:02 GMT-04:00 Grzegorz Powiedziuk <[email protected]>: > > > the ISO image have to be mounted with a loop back device for example > > mount -o loop /downloads/rhel-server-7.2-s390x-dvd.iso /var/ftp/linins/ > > And then you ftp into it so you can see actual content of iso image > > Gregory > > > > > > 2016-03-25 12:57 GMT-04:00 Tom Huegel <[email protected]>: > > > >> Background: > >> I have FEDORA F23 running and it is working well. > >> I want to use this as a FTP server for installing other distros ,, > RedHat > >> and SUSE. > >> I've downloaded the ISO's from the respective vendors. > >> > >> On F23 I have started vsftp, stopped the firewall, created a directory > in > >> /var/ftp/ called linins, mounted the ISO's there, chmod a=rwx > >> /var/ftp/linins > >> > >> Everything looks good. > >> From CMS I can FTP to the directory and download files. > >> > >> The Problem: > >> When I try to install either of the other OS's I get this error message: > >> " server denied you to change to the given directory" > >> > >> My path looks something like this: > >> inst.repo= > >> > >> > ftp://root:[email protected]/var/ftp/linins/rhel-server-7.2-s390x-dvd.iso > >> <==RedHat > >> > >> Any ideas what I am missing? > >> Thanks > >> Tom > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > >> > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
