Unable to install via FTP

[Richard Mayhew - Nashua Mobile Broadband Division]

Hi,

Does your FTP server log anything regarding this, if not, do you see any
traffic using a tcpdump to your host?

Regards
Richard

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mathew
Snyder
Sent: 14 November 2006 09:05 AM
To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Unable to install via FTP

No, not kickstart.  Just a standard installation over the network using
the RHEL 4 disc 1 as the boot medium.  It should plop me down into a
text-mode anaconda session where I can go through the steps I would use
if I were installing from the CD just using the FTP server as the source
for all the packages.

Mathew

Richard Mayhew - Nashua Mobile Broadband Division wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You might need to be a little more specific in what you are doing. I'm

> gathering you are using a kickstart installation.
> Could you perhaps paste your networking part of the kickstart config.
> 
> Are you using a normal boot CD or a Kickstart boot CD?
> 
> Thanks
> Richard
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mathew 
> Snyder
> Sent: 14 November 2006 08:46 AM
> To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Unable to install via FTP
> 
> I'm studying for the RHCT/E and have recently upgraded my testing 
> server from RHEL3 to RHEL4.  I have the Redhat directory copied to 
> /var/ftp/pub.  If I log in to ftp remotely I am successful and an ls 
> lists pub.  If I change to pub I see Redhat.
> 
> I have it configured to use anonymous logins.
> 
> The problem arises when I attempt to perform an installation via FTP.
> It used to be that if I couldn't establish a connection to the server 
> it would give me an error.  If it could connect but not find the 
> necessary installation image it would tell me.  However now, it 
> doesn't say anything.  It simply falls into an installation via CD 
> asking me if I want to test the installation media.
> 
> What am I missing?  Why is it not even bothering to connect to the FTP

> server and instead using local media?
> 
> Mathew
> 
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