I've installed SUSE 9 via FTP on my older machine a couple of times. I now have a newer machine and the FTP install is giving me some troubles. Specifically, I have an onboard VIA-Rhine network on the motherboard and a new Netgear router. In doing the install steps, I'm performing a manual install, loading the VIA-Rhine driver module (although when I choose this it says "mii module loaded successfully"). Kind of odd. I then enter the IP for the mirror I want (I've triple-checked this) and then the machine sits there saying it's attempting the FTP connection. After several minutes, it times out saying: Error while accessing the FTP server Failed to connect to FTP server I've googled for this and found a couple similar posts, but none of them had any resolution. I would imagine either it's an issue with the network card module or possible the router, although I boot Win2000 on this same drive and can access the net. Hoping someone can shed some light on something to try as I'd like to get SUSE 9 on this machine. Thanks.
get another ftp mirror from the suse mirror site. ping it to get the ip addresss. browse the site to get the exact path. try again with the new site. good luck, d. On Sunday 29 February 2004 14:27, Trey Sizemore wrote:
I've installed SUSE 9 via FTP on my older machine a couple of times. I now have a newer machine and the FTP install is giving me some troubles. Specifically, I have an onboard VIA-Rhine network on the motherboard and a new Netgear router. In doing the install steps, I'm performing a manual install, loading the VIA-Rhine driver module (although when I choose this it says "mii module loaded successfully"). Kind of odd. I then enter the IP for the mirror I want (I've triple-checked this) and then the machine sits there saying it's attempting the FTP connection. After several minutes, it times out saying:
Error while accessing the FTP server Failed to connect to FTP server
I've googled for this and found a couple similar posts, but none of them had any resolution. I would imagine either it's an issue with the network card module or possible the router, although I boot Win2000 on this same drive and can access the net.
Hoping someone can shed some light on something to try as I'd like to get SUSE 9 on this machine.
Thanks.
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:32:39 -1000, "plain"
get another ftp mirror from the suse mirror site. ping it to get the ip addresss. browse the site to get the exact path. try again with the new site. good luck, d.
No such luck...definately a router issue. I was able to connect with no problem once I bypassed the router and connected directly. Never had this problem with my linksys router. Perhaps I have to set the router up as a proxy to get this to work? -- Trey Sizemore trey@fastmail.fm
Last night we started the SuSE 9.0 FTP install and left it happily downloading packages. However, this morning it had stopped at 39% indicating it could not find an OpenOffice package. (I wasn't there so I do not have the exact package name.) Questions: 1. Is there any way to tell the installer to ignore a package and go ahead with the remaining install? 2. If not, is there a way to restart the install but have it detect what it has already installed? Thank you, Lucky Leavell
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 11:19, Lucky Leavell wrote:
Last night we started the SuSE 9.0 FTP install and left it happily downloading packages. However, this morning it had stopped at 39% indicating it could not find an OpenOffice package. (I wasn't there so I do not have the exact package name.)
Questions: 1. Is there any way to tell the installer to ignore a package and go ahead with the remaining install? 2. If not, is there a way to restart the install but have it detect what it has already installed?
Thank you, Lucky Leavell I, too, had the same problem when attempting to ftp-install 8.2, and found no way to continue. As memory serves, you can selelct the pkgs you do not want to d/l. I hope you are luckier than I was... I ended up purchasing the distro after six or seven attempts. -- ...CH SuSE Is All U Need Linux user# 313696 Linux box# 199365
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Lucky Leavell wrote:
Last night we started the SuSE 9.0 FTP install and left it happily downloading packages. However, this morning it had stopped at 39% indicating it could not find an OpenOffice package. (I wasn't there so I do not have the exact package name.)
Questions: 1. Is there any way to tell the installer to ignore a package and go ahead with the remaining install?
Just press the Ignore button - imagine that!
2. If not, is there a way to restart the install but have it detect what it has already installed?
The install completed with no further (or rather, just minor) problems. (Part of the problem was the display is too wide to fit on the monitor requiring rather awkward scrolling left/right using the monitor controls, hence I missed the Ignore button last week.) Thank you, Lucky Leavell
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