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

[Mike Pressel]

Jay, are you using a proxy server?  If so, this may be your problem.  There is 
a work around to enable YAST to use a Proxy server, but if I remember 
correctly, it varies from version to version.  8.2 has a proxy settings menu 
in YAST -->  network Services --> Proxy that should do the trick.

Mike

On Sunday 11 April 2004 17:02, 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?
>
>
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