Are you certain the port is open, and that the server is set to start
automatically when the system boots?
RedHat does this by default, but I've found that Mandrake does not.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box....!
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Peter Yellman wrote:
>I hope I'm not repeating myself, some help would be much appreciated.
>
>I thought I had put this behind me with a couple of network/http
>installs of redhat, turbolinux, etc., but am having problems w/doing so
>on Mandrake 7.0. I'm trying to install from a local network http
>server. I have created a virtual directory named mandrake so that the
>following directory structure is displayed when you visit
>http://192.168.0.3/mandrake/
>
>--> base
>--> instimage
>--> mdkinst
>--> RPMS
>
>However, when I attempt the install, I get the mesage: Unable to
>retrieve the second stage ramdisk: File not found on server.
>
>In the Web site name field, I have entered 192.168.0.3, and tried
>including the http://, trailing slashes, etc., just for fun. I have
>also tried every variant to specify the directory that I can think of,
>such as:
>/mandrake
>/mandrake/
>/mandrake/base
>/mandrake/base/
>and others.
>
>I've tried installing with both the graphical (DrakX) and text-based
>network install images, with no success.
>
>I installed RH 6.1 over the network, from the same webserver, on to this
>very same machine just a few months ago, and it's been running on the
>network fine since, so I'm pretty sure it's not the NIC.
>
>I sure hope someone out there has a quick answer to this silly problem.
>
>Oh yeah -- no CD-ROM on this machine.
>
>Thanks,
>Peter Yellman
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
