[Lilux-help] suse8.1 yast and ftp help needed

[Jay Christnach]

Hi all,

I'm helping a friend who does web-development and is not very linux-aware to 
administer his server. The server runs a suse 8.1 distro. I'm not used to the 
suse way of package installation. Initially the server has been setup using 
cds but we have no (easy) physical acces to it, so I wanted to configure yast 
to download the rpms via ftp and manage dependencies to ease installation/
maintenance. 

The problem is when I tell yast to use a ftp server with the directory which I 
found on the suse webpages (e.g. ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/) I only 
get an error message "No Installation source on installation media" .

Does anybody know how to setup yast on suse to work with ftp?