I usually have to code a relative path on the ftp URL. It may look like an absolute path, but the ftp server treats it as a relative path (as Mark said, your ftp server logs would show how it is being used.) So try: ftp://userid:password@host.domain/../../mnt/
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Kyle Stewart <kyle.stew...@zionsbancorp.com > wrote: > 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 > > ====================================================================== > THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE, INCLUDING ANY ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS, IS > CONFIDENTIAL and may contain information that is privileged and exempt from > disclosure under applicable law. If you are neither the intended recipient > nor responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, > please note that any dissemination, distribution, copying or the taking of > any action in reliance upon the message is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately. > Thank you. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/ > -- Bruce Hayden z/VM and Linux on System z ATS IBM, Endicott, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/
