Luis Villa (liv@duke.edu)
Tue, 4 May 1999 22:45:19 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Dan Burcaw wrote:
>
> I've had this problem too.. with YDL, LinuxPPC, Red Hat, etc.
> Red Hat's response to this error is that most likely the ftp server is
> either 1) full 2) your connection to the ftp server times out.
Dan-
I'd respectfully suggest (if I were you and I had talked directly to redhat)
that the problem is at least partially **on the software end**, and RedHat
needs to be told that. I've gotten this same result installing on x86 from
*sunsite*, which does not get full, does not timeout (at least not for
substantially longer than a redhat install requires) and never, ever has
connection problems (I consistently get ~700K/s from them, since I am
practically next door.)
Furthermore, while having done nearly a dozen 5.x installs from metalab, I
never had any such "time out/server full" problems. I'd venture to guess the
6.0 install procedure has some incompatibility with a specific ftp server
that cropped up somewhere when they added complexity in order to support http
install. (BTW, has anyone gotten these messages with an http install?)
"try another server" should not be an acceptable answer.
I'm just one small user, and have very little influence with RedHat. You, as
a fellow distributor, might have better luck. They don't do good x.0
releases, and this is just another one of those flaws. Someone ought to point
it out forcefully.
-Luis
> I've successfully installed several times via FTP (for testing) and the
> yellowdoglinux.com sites and others have reported success too.
>
> My best advice is to try another ftp server (which worked for you).
>
> Our mirrors update every day (early morning) so don't hesitate to use a
> mirror.
>
> Dan
>
> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Ben Karas wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to install YellowDogLinux onto an Apple 7200 for the past
> > few days and have tried, unsuccessfully, to install via ftp YellowDogLinux
> > eight times in a row, with the same error.
> >
> > I would run the installer, not pick individual packages, and then the
> > installer would reformat and continue. It would get the error "error
> > setting remote server to passive mode" on the first rpm and offer to retry.
> > On retry, it gives the error "server IO error". This occurs at least for
> > 129.22.32.15, which I particularly like because I'm on the same network
> > segment as it is. I also got the same error for 156.111.175.77.
> >
> > However, for fun, I tried ftp.ppc.kernel.org and the install went
> > perfectly. This leads me to believe that something is wrong with the
> > ftp.yellowdoglinux.com setups. I'm not expert enough to know what though.
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> > -Ben Karas
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Dan
>
> Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
>
>
>
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