Hi Folks,

This is my first post to this site.  Please forgive my inexperience.

I am trying to install RHEL 6.5 via FTP (I have done 5.5 & 6.2 last
year successfully.)  When I get into stage 2, and the gui initializes,
I answer the language question, media (url), but when I get to entering
the ftp url and processing it, the response is always  "Unable to
retriev ftp://userid:password@host.domain/mnt/images/install.img";  So I
look at the Linux systems's z/VM console and see:

02:41:16,074 INFO    : starting
STEP_STAGE2
02:41:53,131 INFO    : transferring ftp://userid:password@host.
domain/mnt/images/updates.
img
02:41:53,186 ERROR   : Error downloading ftp://userid:password@host.
domain/mnt/images/updates.img: Access denied to remote
resource
02:41:53,193 INFO    : transferring ftp://userid:password@host.
domain/mnt/images/product.
img
WARNING loader: error -2147483630 reading header: cpio: read failed -
Success
02:41:53,219 ERROR   : Error downloading ftp://userid:password@host.
domain/mnt/images/product.img: Access denied to remote
resource
02:41:53,220 INFO    : transferring ftp:/userid:password@host.
domain/mnt/images/install.
img
02:41:53,244 ERROR   : Error downloading ftp://userid:password@host.
domain/mnt/images/install.img: Access denied to remote
resource


Where: userid:password@host.domain are substituted for the actual valid
values in our environment.

As root on the ftp server I have done:  mount -o ro,gid=10,loop -t
iso9660 /zftp/RHEL_6.5/rhel-server-6.5-s390x-dvd.iso /mnt

mount shows:
/zftp/RHEL_6.5/rhel-server-6.5-s390x-dvd.iso on /mnt type iso9660 (ro,
gid=10,loop=/dev/loop0)

ls -ail of / shows:

 1856 dr-xr-xr-x  6 root wheel   8192 Nov 11 11:55 mnt

ls -ail /mnt shows:

20032 dr-xr-xr-x  2 root wheel   2048 Nov 11 11:55 images

ls -ail /mnt/images shows:

20062 -r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 128208896 Nov 11 11:48 install.
img


The userid in the ftp://... string is a member of the 'wheel' group,
gid=10.

I would use root  or use anonymous ftp but both are locked down in our
environment and against policy.  I have been at this for a while and
really need to get this installed.  This is running on z/VM 6.3 RSU
1302 on top of z/VM 6.2 RSU 1301.  This is just until we can get some
hardware worked out so we can run z/VM 6.3 as first-level.

What am I missing here?  Thanks for your help, in advance.

Best Regards,

Kyle Stewart

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