On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 11:03 am, h w blackwell wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Am part of a V.large distrubuted university network which gives me 10Mps > download speeds (yeah!) but no control over network settings... I want > to do a fresh install of Mnadrake 9.2 off the uk mirror ftp server. > Therefore last night I got the network boot floppy image, created a boot > disk with it and got cracking. All appears to be going well, set up dchp > with hostname & domain etc, ftp site and bang, hit that brick wall.. The > error message is error: bad hostname. However checked it by typing > hostname @ the command prompt of my current, networked mandrake 9.1 > install & it all matches up (I didn't think I'd got it wrong to start > with.). My current theory, the install program cannot get to the ftp > site because all web access is through a proxy with a unusual port > number. My network also doesn't support pasv ftp. Now I know the > relevant ports and address's, but cannot see how I can configure the > installer to access the ftp site through the proxy server on the > relevant port. Does anyone know how, or is this a feature in the > installer that needs adding at a later date... And what about PASV, is > this used by the downloader, or can I switch it off? Am I stuffed until > the ISO images appear or is there hope? I'd much rather ftp, as I don't > need half the programs on the iso download and would rather save the > download time... > > Cheers > > Chewwit
If you can see the Mandrake mirror by typing ftp://blah..blah in the URL line of a browser, then it isn't going to stop the network install either. More likely you are simply giving the wrong url. I think you need to point it to either the /Mandrake directory, or the /base directory (Not quite sure which) For example ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/base or is it ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake HTH derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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