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

[Pascal Steichen]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 05:02:34PM +0200, Jay Christnach wrote:
> 
> 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?

Some where in yast there must be a setting to tell which intsllation sources it uses, however I don't remember exactly what it is called ;( Maybe some one knows the exact term ?

After this your thing should work ;).

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