Bugzilla – Bug 176309
linuxrc should handle http redirects
Last modified: 2007-08-08 09:27:24 UTC
The installation link goes to: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/ However, it's not possible to access this directory during the installation. The host resolves to 195.135.221.130, but the actual path is obviously changed when going over download.opensuse.org. Same for problem exists for FTP. Also, when manually logging in to that IP, a message comes: "This server is busy, please try again later or any of my mirrors: http://download.opensuse.org" But there are no mirrors to be found at that location. The mirrors are quite hidden anyway, it takes me quite some time to locate them every time.
A link to the mirrors have been added in the mean time to http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version, so you can safely ignore the little rant at the end :-)
did you enter this URL in the boot screen from CD/DVD ? The URL in general does work, but I am told that linuxrc can't handle redirections yet.
(In reply to comment #2) > did you enter this URL in the boot screen from CD/DVD ? You mean if I didn't enter the IP address of the host, but it's name as is? Didn't try that, sorry, didn't even know this should be working already.
linuxrc is currently unable to handle HTTP Redirects correctly. I supposed you got an HTTP 302 errors, Alex? Steffen, could you please give me a list of files that linuxrc tries to download? I'll then whitelist those files on download.openSUSE.org and don't have download.openSUSE.org redirect for those, but rather deliver them directly. For 10.2 we should try to fix linuxrc to handle HTTP redirects correctly.
/content /control.xml /media.1/license.zip /boot/xxx/root /boot/xxx/root.fonts /boot/xxx/rescue
My problem is probably not related to redirects, as I inserted the IP address of the server only - as that's what seems to be the right thing after having read http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_Help
Oh, I forgot: that's why I only got 404's with this (download.opensuse.org is translated to 195.135.221.130, but neither /distribution/... nor /pub/... are working from this IP).
That's because we are using name-based vhosts. Anyway, we decided not to whitelist those files, as this would increase the traffic on that host and slow down our staging area for the mirrors. Assigning to Steffen, to take care of the linuxrc fix :)
*** Bug 148258 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Steffen, is this going to be in 10.3?
yes, should work in beta1