On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Gary A. Ernst wrote: > The release notes indicate that you copy... <detail snipped>
The same release notes have an (easily missed, IMHO) statement that the installer can only use a relative directory path for FTP installs. That means that your install tree MUST be underneath the home directory of the userid you are using to access the FTP server. This applies to anonymous FTP as well. I used a bind mount to do this (I could not use a symlink as my installation files are on a different filesystem and vsftpd doesn't follow symlinks outside the initial filesystem). # mount -o bind /data/installtrees/suse/sles-9-s390/ /srv/ftp/suse where the tree of install directories has been set up at /data/installtrees/suse/sles-9-s390, and the FTP home directory (for anonymous FTP) is /srv/ftp. Now in YaST, the path to the installation is just ftp://192.168.0.1/suse. Of course you don't have to bind mount... You can also set up the installation tree under the FTP user's directory and loopback mount the CD images there (which means that very little data really exists under the FTP directory, just the spots to mount the CDs). Be careful that you can successfully browse via FTP into the loopback-mounted CDs though -- again, vsftpd gets funny about crossing between filesystems. For some reason it doesn't mind bind mounts -- but that may be because I used a real FTP userid and set up the bind mount under that user's home directory rather than using anonymous. Hope this is helpful... Cheers, Vic Cross ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
