Bug 6010 - FTP install bug - (null) hostname
Summary: FTP install bug - (null) hostname
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jay Turner
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-10-17 00:09 UTC by sshah
Modified: 2015-01-07 23:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-10-18 18:26:28 UTC

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Description sshah 1999-10-17 00:09:54 UTC 
When using the FTP install procedure, the installer is able
to autodetect the NIC (tulip for me) and get to the point
where it is ready to accept a FTP site name and directory
for installation.

After typing in the (correct) information, it fails.

The <alt>-f3 screen shows that it is trying to transfer:
ftp://(null)/mirror/redhat-6.1/RedHat/base/stage2.img

The NIC itself is an old SMC card which I've had working
with RH4.2. When
Comment 1 alanrb 1999-10-17 04:40:59 UTC 
I ran into the same problem and it turned out to be either the DNS for
my ISP was not returing a valid address or the site was down. I tried
another site that manually accepted FTPs and it worked correctly.
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