Either you 'd install ftpfs (lufs)http://freshmeat.net/releases/108584/ into your zvmlinx5 machine (I don't know if it works), or you should install your packages via rpm (extracted from rpm man page): (...omissis...) rpm {-F|--freshen} [install-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...
This will upgrade packages, but only if an earlier version
currently
exists. The PACKAGE_FILE may be specified as an ftp or http
URL, in
which case the package will be downloaded before being
installed. See
FTP/HTTP OPTIONS for information on rpm's internal ftp and http
client
support.
(...omissis...)Noll, Ralph wrote:
what is the mount command and the type to mount my cdrom from my windows box to install a product from my win pc onto my linux machine
mount -t ftp 10.201.18.2 /cdrom... zvmlinx5:/# mount -t ftp 10.201.18.2 /cdrom mount: fs type ftp not supported by kernel zvmlinx5:/#
error message above
Ralph
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Archer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES8 Install Problems
WAR-FTPD is a server that will work with a Linux install, unlike microsoft ftp servers which only have a subset of the FTP command set. It is free and can be found at http://www.jgaa.com/ Now I can install Linux from my window workstation w/o having to bother the UNIX group to mount my CD on one of their FTP servers.
Chapter 5, page 23 (Making the installation data available via FTP) describes the need for it. It works well, in fact I'm replacing my current FTP server with WAR-FTPD.
Scott
At 09:19 AM 02/25/2003, you wrote:
What is WAR-FTPD? FTPD I know, but WAR is unfamiliar to me.
Eric Bielefeld Sr. MVS Systems Programmer P&H Mining Equipment Milwaukee, WI 414-671-7849 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/24/03 04:56PM >>>
Okay...... solved my space problem. I'm doing an FTP install using WAR-FTPD. I set the max users on the ftp server to 5 to be safe?. The install logs on at least 24 times without logging off. Go figure. I set the max users to 4000. Anyway.... now I can see all the packages and it says I have enough room. Another tip for WAR-FTPD users is to set the file access alias to /cdrom so the install can find it.
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