I'm having trouble with a RedHat 6.1 network installation on sparc.
I'm using anonymous FTP, and it reads the second stage ramdisk, etc.
but when it gets to the point of reading "hdlist" it dies with a
python exception, saying: 'CWD ' command not understood.

Here is part of the stack trace.  This is typed by hand from another
machine, so it's not complete.

... some stuff omitted ...
File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urlinstall.py", line 45, in
readHeaders u
rl=urllib.urlopen(self.baseUrl + "/RedHat/base/hdlist")
File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urlinstall.py", line 59, in urlopen
retur
n _urlopener.open(url)
File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urlinstall.py", line 157, in open
return
getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urlinstall.py", line 378, in
open_ftp sel
f.ftpcache[key] = \
File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urlinstall.py", line 559, in
__init__ sel
f.init()
File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urlinstall.py", line 568, in init
self.ft
p.cwd(dir)
File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 441, in cwd
File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 233, in
voidcmd
File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 288, in
voidresp
File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py", line 281, in
getresp IO
Error: [Errno ftp error] 500 'CWD ': command not understood.

This error is exactly what our FTP server says if you tell it "CWD "
with no directory name.  Other people on newsgroups have noticed the
same problem in sparc installations via FTP.

In comp.os.linux.misc Paul Gazella <pgazella.com> wrote:
> I'm also having the same problem with my IPX.  I have RedHat 6.0
> currently on it.  I tried the FTP install only to bail with an exception
> when gathering the package information.  I then ftp'ed the entire sparc
> directories onto my hard disk and proceeded to install from my hard
> drive.  Guess what?  Same exception at the same point.  I've tried doing
> an upgrade, a graphical install and a text install.  No luck.  I'm about
> ready to look for another solution if I can't find the answer.  If
> anyone knows, I would appreciate it also.

> Chetan Ahuja wrote
>
> Every instal dies with some error or the other in the python   scripts.
It die
s
> at different points in the process everytime I try   it. It throws out a
stack
> trace of the python functions but the   failures  seem to be rather
strange.
> e.g on an ftp install attempts,   the error was that the ftp server did
not
> understand the CWD command ( I can't remember the exact wording). Now
that's
> simply   ridiculous. It's a standard wu-ftpd running on another linux
machine
> running redhat 6.0.