Problems with network ftp install on 9.1
Hello Everyone, I am not able to get 9.1 to install from ftp. The machine properly finds the right files in the beginning, but when yast shows the packages available for installation there are no packages available and no package are available. Yast says "error unable to read medium". I have a dvd mounted on a remote box that's available via ftp with a username and password. Has anyone tried this? Thank You, jeff
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:32, Jeff Blasius wrote:
Hello Everyone, I am not able to get 9.1 to install from ftp. The machine properly finds the right files in the beginning, but when yast shows the packages available for installation there are no packages available and no package are available. Yast says "error unable to read medium". I have a dvd mounted on a remote box that's available via ftp with a username and password. Has anyone tried this? Thank You, jeff
Read this 1st. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/README.txt Now sit back and and relax. Dee
W.D.McKinney wrote:
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:32, Jeff Blasius wrote:
Hello Everyone, I am not able to get 9.1 to install from ftp. The machine properly finds the right files in the beginning, but when yast shows the packages available for installation there are no packages available and no package are available. Yast says "error unable to read medium". I have a dvd mounted on a remote box that's available via ftp with a username and password. Has anyone tried this? Thank You, jeff
Read this 1st. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1/README.txt Now sit back and and relax.
Dee
Thank You for your reply. I *have* a copy of 9.1 pro. I setup my own personal ftp server on another machine because there is no cdrom on the destination machine.The ftp server is setup to serve the suse 9.1 dvd sitting in its dvdrom. Should this work? Like I said, it accepts the ftp site in the beginning (after network has been setup and it "sees" the files), but when it goes to pre-select the right packages, yast can't find the rpms????? Any ideas? Thanks, jeff
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 02.53, Jeff Blasius wrote:
Thank You for your reply. I *have* a copy of 9.1 pro. I setup my own personal ftp server on another machine because there is no cdrom on the destination machine.The ftp server is setup to serve the suse 9.1 dvd sitting in its dvdrom. Should this work? Like I said, it accepts the ftp site in the beginning (after network has been setup and it "sees" the files), but when it goes to pre-select the right packages, yast can't find the rpms????? Any ideas?
I can't really test it here right now, but can't you set the ftp server to log what's going on? Maybe there's a bug when using a user/pwd login?! Logs are indispensable when bug tracking
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 20:57, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 02.53, Jeff Blasius wrote:
Thank You for your reply. I *have* a copy of 9.1 pro. I setup my own personal ftp server on another machine because there is no cdrom on the destination machine.The ftp server is setup to serve the suse 9.1 dvd sitting in its dvdrom. Should this work? Like I said, it accepts the ftp site in the beginning (after network has been setup and it "sees" the files), but when it goes to pre-select the right packages, yast can't find the rpms????? Any ideas?
I can't really test it here right now, but can't you set the ftp server to log what's going on? Maybe there's a bug when using a user/pwd login?! Logs are indispensable when bug tracking
I'm guessing you're seeing the same thing I'm seeing, if you can see your logs: May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: connection from db10.local May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 220 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: db2.ole.net FTP server (Version 6.5/OpenBSD, linux port 0.3.3) ready. May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: USER bshelton May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 331 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: Password required for bshelton. May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: PASS ??? May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 230 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: User bshelton logged in. May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: FTP LOGIN FROM db10.local as bshelton May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: TYPE I May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 200 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: Type set to I. May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: PASV May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 227 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: Entering Passive Mode (172,19,1,2,130,77) May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: RETR /media/cdrom/driverupdate May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 550 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: /media/cdrom/driverupdate: No such file or directory. May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: get /media/cdrom/driverupdate May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 221 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: You could at least say goodbye. Seems as though the install program that loads is looking for a non-existent file and crashing as a result. It does the same thing regardless of which method I try, smb nfs ftp.... I'd say it's a misconfiguration of the install setup on the boot image... or some such. Needless to say, after swearing off 9.1 I am trying again. This time I decied to procede a little more slowly and try to document the errors so that we could perhaps get them fixed. -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://www.ole.net Phone: 313-526-1111 Fax: 313-526-3333
Unfortunately vsftp's logs aren't set to be verbose enough. I'll try changing that tomorrow. Here's what I'm getting. That driver update thing can be selected on the boot menu. Did you try not selecting it and selecting it? SuSE's going to have problems if ftp installs don't work. Especially with the freeloaders and testers. jeff Tue May 11 16:55:33 2004 [pid 9596] CONNECT: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:33 2004 [pid 9595] [] OK LOGIN: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9597] [] OK DOWNLOAD: Client "", "/mnt/suse/boot/root", 54587392 bytes, 10744.77Kbyte/sec Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9599] CONNECT: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9598] [] OK LOGIN: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9600] [] OK DOWNLOAD: Client "", "/mnt/suse/content", 592 bytes, 1113.92Kbyte/sec Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9602] CONNECT: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9601] [] OK LOGIN: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9605] CONNECT: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9604] [] OK LOGIN: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9608] CONNECT: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9607] [] OK LOGIN: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9609] [] OK DOWNLOAD: Client "", "/mnt/suse/control.xml", 21394 bytes, 8531.06Kbyte/sec Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9612] CONNECT: Client "" Tue May 11 16:55:38 2004 [pid 9611] [] OK LOGIN: Client "" Nothing else..... Brad Shelton wrote:
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 20:57, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 02.53, Jeff Blasius wrote:
Thank You for your reply. I *have* a copy of 9.1 pro. I setup my own personal ftp server on another machine because there is no cdrom on the destination machine.The ftp server is setup to serve the suse 9.1 dvd sitting in its dvdrom. Should this work? Like I said, it accepts the ftp site in the beginning (after network has been setup and it "sees" the files), but when it goes to pre-select the right packages, yast can't find the rpms????? Any ideas?
I can't really test it here right now, but can't you set the ftp server to log what's going on? Maybe there's a bug when using a user/pwd login?! Logs are indispensable when bug tracking
I'm guessing you're seeing the same thing I'm seeing, if you can see your logs:
May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: connection from db10.local May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 220 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: db2.ole.net FTP server (Version 6.5/OpenBSD, linux port 0.3.3) ready. May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: USER bshelton May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 331 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: Password required for bshelton. May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: PASS ??? May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 230 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: User bshelton logged in. May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: FTP LOGIN FROM db10.local as bshelton May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: TYPE I May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 200 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: Type set to I. May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: PASV May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 227 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: Entering Passive Mode (172,19,1,2,130,77) May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: RETR /media/cdrom/driverupdate May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 550 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: /media/cdrom/driverupdate: No such file or directory. May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: get /media/cdrom/driverupdate May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 221 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: You could at least say goodbye.
Seems as though the install program that loads is looking for a non-existent file and crashing as a result. It does the same thing regardless of which method I try, smb nfs ftp....
I'd say it's a misconfiguration of the install setup on the boot image... or some such.
Needless to say, after swearing off 9.1 I am trying again. This time I decied to procede a little more slowly and try to document the errors so that we could perhaps get them fixed.
May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: RETR /media/cdrom/driverupdate May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 550 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: /media/cdrom/driverupdate: No such file or directory.
Uh.... Guess what I finally figured out... I mislabeled the DVDs when I copied them. The reason I couldn't do a network install is because I had the wrong blinkin' DVD in. No wonder it was crashing... I was booting to a 32bit CD, loading a 64bit install program and boot image. Duhhh... It works now. Man am I dumb! -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://www.ole.net Phone: 313-526-1111 Fax: 313-526-3333
So is /media/cdrom/driverupdate a file that should be on the 32 bit cds? I don't have one. Thanks, jeff Brad Shelton wrote:
May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: command: RETR /media/cdrom/driverupdate May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: <--- 550 May 11 21:20:55 db2 ftpd[4030]: /media/cdrom/driverupdate: No such file or directory.
Uh.... Guess what I finally figured out... I mislabeled the DVDs when I copied them. The reason I couldn't do a network install is because I had the wrong blinkin' DVD in.
No wonder it was crashing... I was booting to a 32bit CD, loading a 64bit install program and boot image.
Duhhh... It works now.
Man am I dumb!
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