Which reminds me ...
Last time I checked I had SuSE 7.0 floppies which refused to install from a publicfile server (DJB software) in FTP mode. Neither did I check HTTP mode nor SuSE 7.1 floppies.
Is "publicfile server" an ftp server software? Sorry for my ignorance, but I don't know it...
Does the SuSE installer not only request expected files but list directories, too? I don't see the reason for it to fail ...
Yes, it requests directory listings. I've fixed a bug in the mirror.pl script lately, it might be a similar problem with yast. But we don't have any bug reports concerning ftp installation mode.
NB: OpenBSD's as well as FreeBSD's installers cope fine with publicfile servers and have done so for quite some time.
Hmmm.
You can't do an nfs installation from ftp.suse.com but if you need to install to a lot of machines it's definitely worth the trouble to setup a local nfs server.
This scenario (local NFS servers to install from) is often found in .edu style institutions (universities and the like) or huge enterprises. Ask your local admin. :)
I've asked myself many many times...
I'm not positive whether any uni admin will provide this service publically or if SuSE will consider doing this (since Ramon only attacks RH machines ... :> ).
I don't think that this is feasible. UDP traffic over longer distances
isn't really worth the try because it's not efficient. Use ftp - it works
well enough.
Thanks,
Roman.
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