The following command successfully retrieves the installation directory from the ftp server: wget -r ftp://192.168.1.1/sles8_install The following boot options get me past the red "Error while accessing the ftp server" window. linux autoyast=floppy install=ftp://192.168.1.1/sles8_install netdevice=eth0 insmod=eepro100 HostIP=192.168.1.2 However, accepting the license agreement, and during the phase "Preparing System for Automated Installation", I get the error window: "Error while configuring software selections. Please try again!" I know the autoinst.xml file on the floppy works because I have used it to install successfully from the CD's. The sles8_install directory is a copy of the directory I used to successfully install using nfs. Sincerely, Don Watson Linux Technology and Solutions; Beaverton, OR 503-578-4861/TL: 775-4861; dwatson@us.ibm.com Anas Nashif <nashif@suse.de> To: Donald W Watson/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS cc: suse-autoinstall@suse.com 04/17/2003 05:09 Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] ftp autoinstall PM * Donald W Watson <dwatson@us.ibm.com> [Apr 17. 2003 23:21]:

I have nfs discovery of the autoinst.xml file and nfs installation

working

now, thanks to quick response from Christoph.

However, we need the option of installing from ftp, and I cannot get that to work. Here are the parameters I am using for boot options;

linux autoyast=ftp://192.168.1.1/home/anonymous/autoinst.xml install=ftp://192.168.1.1/home/anonymous/sles8_install netdevice=eth0 insmod=eepro100 HostIP=192.168.1.2

control file on FTP server was not supported on SLES, it is starting from 8.2.

where 192.168.1.1 is the ftp server, anonymous is ftp_username for vsftpd (and its home directory is the root of the anonymous ftp area--this works ftp'ing from another machine), sles8_install is the subdirectory containing the installation files, and 192.168.1.2 is an unused address on the network.

At the prompts I enter the following data:

Start installation/system: Start installation Please choose the source medium: Network Please choose the network protocol: FPT Automatic configuration via DHCP: No Please enter your IP address: 192.168.1.2 Please enter your netmask: 255.255.255.0 If you need gateway . . .: 192.168.1.2 Please enter Ip address of name server: <Esc> Please enter IP address of FPT server: 192.168.1.1 Usually an FPT installation . . .: No Do you want to use a HTTP proxy: No Please enter the directory on the server:

/home/anonymous/sles8_install

This results in the red window "Error while accessing the FPT server: File not found on server

linuxrc will be looking for the file root available in boot/root. Can you please check if you can retrieve root with wget from the server? i.e. wget ftp://192.168.1.1//home/anonymous/sles8_install ? Is /home/anonymous/sles8_install the root of the FTP server? if yes, then the directory should be "/" and not the complete path! Anas

Thanks again for any help anyone can provide.

Sincerely, Don Watson Linux Technology and Solutions; Beaverton, OR 503-578-4861/TL: 775-4861; dwatson@us.ibm.com

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