Hi folks,
I thought I'd ask for suggestions / comments about my recent experiments. I
implemented an installation server for my organization using an SLES9 box
(with SLES9 as the target installation). The server is up and running using
HTTP (which works great), but I tried all other sources first and I had
these problems...
1. I was unable to get FTP to work as an installation source. Target
machines got a red box in yast complaining about "passive mode." I'm sure
this is my ignorance in FTP, but I did try a few things and was unable to
get it to work. Any thoughts?
2. I was unable to use TFTP as a source. I think this is actual limitations
on the TFTP protocol, but I'm not positive.
3. NFS worked, *but* performance was abysmal. I did the testing on a
private network, and I find that the apache2 server install is *very* fast
on that configuration, but NFS is surprisingly slow -- slower (I think) than
CD-ROM. Any thoughts?
Best wishes. -- Charlie
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A. Charles Suffin
Senior Software Engineer
Stratus Technologies, Inc.
111 Powdermill Road
Maynard, MA 01754-3409
US (978)461-7590