Re: mksles9root.sh question

2006-03-14 Thread Tim Hare
I'm looking at trying to use my z/OS FTP server for my installation of the evaluation version of SLES9. While reading the mksles9root.sh script to determine what I might need to do manually, I notice the mk_order_files function does: echo -e /$sles/CD1 /$sles/CD1 yast/instorder echo -e

Re: mksles9root.sh question

2006-03-14 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Tim, is the -e meaningful on a Linux system I believe that is recommended in the SuSE documentation. On Linux the -e flag is used to enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters. And there does not appear to be any more backslashed characters in the script, so you can probably

Re: mksles9root.sh question

2006-03-14 Thread Tim Hare
on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: mksles9root.sh question Tim, is the -e meaningful on a Linux system I believe that is recommended in the SuSE documentation. On Linux the -e flag is used to enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped

Re: mksles9root.sh question

2006-03-14 Thread Robert J Brenneman
It may work better to create the NFS export space and mount it RW from an ASCII client workstation - then build the install tree from the ASCII client. On 3/14/06, Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, is the -e meaningful on a Linux system I believe that is recommended in the

Re: mksles9root.sh question

2006-03-14 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Tim, I was planning on using FTP rather than NFS I believe there is a feature (or bug) with installing via FTP whereby the location specified in the install is relative to the home directory of the FTP user. So if the FTP user were tim and the home directory is /u/tim, then if you specify