Hello, I had the same problem with unresolved symbolic links when I used a WinXP based FTP-Server. It looks like windows will see symbolic links as files with zero bytes.
My solution was the installation of the VMWARE-Player. Then I downloaded a linux-image that was ready to run with the VMWARE-Player. The linux based ftp-server worked great for my installation purposes. kind regards Horst Rempel -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Bern VK2KAD Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2010 04:10 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems Hi I was encouraged to try this technique - I can see the file structure but the symbolic links are still unresolved. I copied the iso to a USB thumb drive which found a home at H: - I then mapped an E: drive from the ISO using a free "Mount'n'Drive manager from DAEMON tools lite. The iso contents are successfully shown on the E: drive but the symbolic links just look like empty datasets - a 0KB file. I then tried a linux ftp server called vsftpd which I installed using apt-get. Everyting looks fine - ftp'ing into the ftp server gives the expected results and the install tree looks correct and the symbolic links actually work. Unfortunately, when I try to connect to this server via the RedHat installer, all I get on the log is "Couldn't connect to server" My next attempt is work out how to create a NFS connection - more reading needed. B. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Clovis Pereira" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 10:47 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems > Hi, > My circunvention to it, is copy the entire DVD as one .iso file to > WinXP, mount the .iso as a virtual driver and enable it to FTP server. > This preserve all DVD structures. > There are a lot of free programs to create the .iso file and to create > the virtual drivers. > ______________________________________________ > Clovis > > > > From: > Alan Altmark <[email protected]> > To: > [email protected] > Date: > 06/12/2010 01:41 > Subject: > Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems Sent by: > Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > > > > On Sunday, 12/05/2010 at 05:44 EST, Bern VK2KAD <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> My next issue was the file structure on the DVD - my FTP server is > Filezilla >> running on XP - I simply copied the DVD contents to a folder on the FTP >> server - alas this created another problem - the symbolic links for > repodata >> and packages weren't handled properly > > Actually, the problem is not the file structure, but Windows XP itself. > Windows Vista is the first version of Windows to include support for > symbolic links in NTFS. Hopefully MS added the support to the CD/DVD > drivers as well. > > Alan Altmark > > z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant > IBM System Lab Services and Training > ibm.com/systems/services/labservices > office: 607.429.3323 > [email protected] > IBM Endicott > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
