Bug 68224 - ftp install doesn't work
Summary: ftp install doesn't work
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: limbo
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Depends On:
Blocks: 67217
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-08 10:45 UTC by Marius Andreiana
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-07-10 11:18:22 UTC
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Description Marius Andreiana 2002-07-08 10:45:27 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.1 (X11; Linux i586; U;) Gecko/20020417

Description of problem:
Installing from ftp stops when trying to get package list

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install from ftp
2. when reaching 'Reading package list' the installer won't advance anymore

	

Expected Results:  display the packages and allow me to continue

Additional info:

in 3rd console I saw it was trying to read it from
ftp://1.2.3.4[strange characters here]/RedHat....

there are some extra strange characters there, may it's UTF-8 related?
Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-07-09 23:43:09 UTC 
Were you installing from a mirror or your own ftp server?
Comment 2 Marius Andreiana 2002-07-10 11:18:18 UTC 
from local machine to vmware 2.x.

Transferring images worked fine (base.img and others), this happend when it
tried to get package list.
Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-07-15 16:59:50 UTC 
We do not support installing under vmware.
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