New install and FTP problems

[Matt Wehland <mattw@webtripper.com>]

The meeting for monday sounds great, as I am in the process of my own
Install Hell, er FESTering wound, uhh, well something.

So far I have kinda gotten Redhat v6 installed on my newest machine
(Celeron 333 w 128mg ram, w/13G drive), more on this system later).
This install was from a dos partition, and threw up around the install
boot loader portion (probably because of the greater than so many
cylinders reported by the Bios, right?).  Well it seems to be working
somewhat, even though I think I missed some of the install (didn't get
as many menu's as I think I should of, and definately didn't get to the
X install portion).  Oh well this isn't my biggest problem.
I have gotten Networking up (tcp/ip) Apache and the FTPD running, and
can access them from a winblows machine on my network.  So far so good.

I have another machine (old 486-66 w/32 mg ram, and ISA NE2000
compatable, that I want to make into a gateway/firewall/everything
else.  I figured tha t this would be a good chance to get through the
entire RedHat install and see what I missed on the other machine also,
before bombarding the list with questions.  No dice.
For kicks I want to install over the wire, and figured FTP would be the
way to go since I have the FTP server running, right.  Wrong.  Very
short version of story, I got the 486 booted up (after finding out that
I needed another boot image, lot's of fun using a book for RH 5 and
installing v6, there are a couple of little differences).  Told it I had
an Ne2000, and then gave it the config (Irq=10, port=300).  I get device
not found.  Hmm, oh well, try autodetect, and it seems to work.  Add in
IP address, server address, source path and let it go.  Seems to go cool
and then pukes on something like 'file not found <hdlist>.  Go and take
a look and it's not there.  Look in the ls-LR listing for the directory
and it should be there.  Was this file not needed for a hard drive based
install, or did it somehow get deleted between installs?
Ok, reboot P-333 into winblows 95, ftp file from cdrom.com, reboot into
linux and start again.  Oops, forgot to mount the dos partition
containing the source tree (hda7, of F under windows).  mount it
somewhere under /home/ftp and try again.  No dice, now I am failing on
stage2.img (I think the file name is right).  I'm not even getting to
the hdlist file now, I'm failing before.  Hmm.  must've mounted
something wrong?  And yes the image file is there (although I have moved
it and moved it back)
I'm not even going to get into the various permutations of mountings I
have tried, I've completely lost count.

Q.  How/where do I mount the dos partition hda7 so that I can get it for
the install.
Also what path do I give the install program?
The source tree starts on the root of hda7, I've tried mounting under
/home/ftp/pub/hda7, .../pub/, .../ftp/hda7, and probably some others.  I
originally tried mounting the device under /mnt/hda7 and then linkning
it form /home/ftp/pub, but it wouldn't work from the FTP client (the
link did work from the shell)

Q.  Shouldn't the /home/ftp directory be the root directory for someone
logged in via FTP?  meaning when I issue a command 'cd /' while logged
in via an ftp client, shouldn't I be taken to /home/ftp and it should be
my highest level directory?
This seems to be happening with the cd command, but when I issue a get
command with a full path like /pub/hda7/RedHat/base/stage2.img I get a
file not found.  If I leave off the preceding root / off like 'get
pub/hda7/REdHat/base/stage2.img' then it works, but if the FTP client is
local to the server (on the same machine, the only way I've tried it so
far), then it moves the stage2.img file and leaves me with a 0 length
file under the original tree.
Why is this.

Ok more than enough questions for one message, many more to follow.

Matt Wehland
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