No. You don't need an X server to forward too. just ssh and run yast and it will give you the ncurses view. Make sure you are using 512 mb on this Guest. -Cameron
On Monday 11 July 2005 2:37 pm, Adam Thornton wrote: > On Jul 11, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Nix, Robert P. wrote: > > He shows both the 3270 output AND his SSH putty output. When he > > types yast in putty, he gets "umount: /var/adm/mount: not mounted". > > Has nothing to do with networking; he's ssh'ed into his image. Has > > nothing to do with 3270; he has just shown the output of both > > terminals. > > > > I don't have a solution, but I think I did a bit better at reading > > the problem than you have... > > Yup. You're right. > > And there's another clue we've been missing: > > SuSE says you should do ssh -X (to port forward X sessions): do you > need an X server to run the installation? In which case, Hummingbird > SSH or XFree86 (Cygwin) plus xterm plus ssh? I haven't done any SLES > 9 installs from anything but Linux boxes, and I don't remember > whether you need X or not. > > I find it odd that failing to unmount a directory that wasn't mounted > in the first place would be a fatal error, too. I'm wondering if the > error message is not coming from the attempted cleanup after the > installer fails (perhaps because it can't find an X display to use). > > Adam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Cameron Seader Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 801.861.2686 Cell: 801.913.5992 Fax: 801.861.9478 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
