Scott.
I have seen this on my system here at home, running RH 7.3 as the Host,
with Hercules & SLES7 for s390.
It happened on 3 occasions....
#1 the FTP server (RH-i386 PC version) was NOT setup to allow for FTP
services, hence the CLIENT SLES7 could not locate the installation
directory....not a really informative error message....
#2 when I did not have the correct mount points defined to the FTP server
in the FTP config file on the RH i386 system) im my case..
#3 when I did not press the space bar to fill in the [ ] box to select
non-anonymous user in YAST, hence since anonymous was really not allowed on
my (rh i386 system) I had to use a REAL userid & password for that system
and filling in the [ ] did allow me to do that.
well this may assist you in removing some of the issues you face.....
good luck
Ken Dreger
At 10:45 AM 10/17/2002, you wrote:
Not trying to apply patches from FTP server, trying to install it from a
local directory. Guess I could try using itself as an anonymous FTP server
though.
But to answer your question, in YaST2:
Software / Patch CD Update
Select "Expert" for Choice of installation source
Select HardDisk
Enter directory of /mnt/patch/SuSE
<next>
error message: "Could not find SuSE installation-directory."
I'll go try it via FTP too. YaST2 seems to only support anonymous FTP
which is why I wasn't using FTP in the first place.
Scott Chapman
"Post, Mark K"
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What selections did you make in YaST to get to the point where you entered
the FTP server and path information?
Mark Post
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From: Scott Chapman [mailto:sachapman@;aep.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: YaST2 problem
We're just getting started with a pilot project, got the SuSE trial deal
and CDs and have managed to get one guest Linux image IPLed under VM.
We're trying to apply the patches from the patches CD SuSE sent, so I
uploaded the files to a directory on the Linux machine. However when we
try to point to that directory in YaST2, we get "Could not find SuSE
installation directory." The files are in /mnt/patches/SuSE and we've
tried pointing YaST2 to both /mnt/patches and /mnt/patches/SuSE and a few
other combinations to no avail.
If anybody has any suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them. A co-worker
is waiting a call back from SuSE support, so the race is on to see which
venue can provide assitance first. :)
Thanks!
Scott Chapman
American Electric Power
Ken Dreger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
presently un-employed IBM systems programmer
