HTTP/FTP install problem

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 14:14 -0500, David Zakar wrote:
> I seem to be having some trouble getting HTTP and FTP installs to work
> with FC3 (final release version).
> 
> I use the standard linux askmethod option to get it to give me the
> choice of a network installation. But when I type in the hostname and
> directory, it appends a / to the end of the hostname.
> 
> IE:
> hostname: mirror.linux.duke.edu
> directory: /pub/linux/fedora/core
> 
> ... is somehow reinterpreted as
> http://mirror.linux.duke.edu//pub/linux/fedora/core
> 
> Obviously, the installer can't find the appropriate file, and promptly
> fails right there. Is this a known problem, and are there any
> workarounds? Even just a server that automatically fixes this kind of
> error would be good enough.

Have you tried removing the leading slash from the directory name as a
workaround?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>