Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[bshelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brad Shelton)]

On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:35:14AM -0400, Robert Copelan wrote:
> We would like to setup an FTP server to be used for installing SuSE Linux via
> an FTP server.  
> Have found lots of doc on using an FTP server for install but nothing on how to
> setup one.  
> Is there anything that needs to be done other than doing a copy of the
> distribution CDs to a directory on he FTP server?  This seems to be what needs
> to be done but there are index files that are the same name on each CD.

All you have to do is make the directory accessible from the net.

o If NFS is an option for you, I recommend you use it instead. NFS seems to
work much more smoothly than ftp. especially on a local network.

o You can copy all of the CDs into one directory. Just make sure you get
ALL the files. Using cp doesn't seem to cut it. I use tar and have a script
you are welcome to use and modify if it helps.


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