>>> On 2/11/2015 at 01:10 PM, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> wrote: 
> 0x2F is the ASCII forward slash.  In a URL, the slashes are relevant, so
> if you tried to represent ...7.7.7//suse.... then it looks like is starts
> at a null root.  Bzzzzt!   So it must be converted to %2F to ensure that
> the FTP client won't try to parse it.  A firewall is in the way or you
> haven't given the installer IP access to the HMC FTP function.

More likely is that he (had to) specify "/" as the path to the directory, and 
the installer prepends a "/" to the path.  I've seen it before when I used 
"/path/to/directory" instead of just "path/to/directory".


Mark Post

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