[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 FTP install

[Ron Yorston]

"Akemi Yagi" <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 6/5/07, Ron Yorston <rmy at tigress.co.uk> wrote:
>> "Akemi Yagi" <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >If the file is not supposed to be there, then the installer should not
>> >look for it.  One way or another, this seems to be a bug to me.
>>
>> Not necessarily.  My understanding is that the product.img file can be
>> used to customise the installer.  If it isn't present the defaults
>> from the stage2.img file will be used instead.
>>
>> >Is there any chance that you can do the install using NFS instead?
>>
>> I've installed using CDs.  But I'd like to know why I can't get the
>> FTP installer to work.
>
>Ah, I was wondering about product.img.  Then, something is amiss with
>the FTP installer.  Because the stage2.img file does exist, why
>wouldn't it grab it?  Could this be a problem with the ftp server?
>Can you get the file by anon ftp?

Yes, I can access the files via anonymous FTP.  From the server log
I can see that the installer is only trying to fetch the product.img
file.  It tries

   /centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/base/product.img

and

   /centos/4/os/i386/disc1/CentOS/base/product.img

Ron