Fedora ftp install without a name server?

[Bill Freeman]

Ben Scott writes:
 > On 3/23/06, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> wrote:
 > >  I guess I'll move on to running apache (or maybe
 > > tux) on the server and see if the http install works.
 > 
 >   HTTP would mean a single TCP connection on the world's favorite
 > port, so that might be a good idea.

	I'm comming back to my original theme.  FC5 install can't
access the files using http, but konqueror on knoppix has no trouble.
It's hard to believe that Fedora team didn't test the net install at
all, so perhaps it has something to do with not finding the machine
via a name server.

	The mildly informative logging screen (vitrual terminal 3)
that I can find shows it looking for:

		http://192.168.0.2//d1/repodata/repomd.xml

and earlier, in the ftp wars:

		ftp://192.168.0.2//pub/d1/repodata/repomd.xml

	I'm suspicious of the double slash after the IP address.  I've
been specifying d1 (http) or put/d1 (ftp) in the location on server
box.  I'm not specifying a leading slash, but when it loops back after
the error message, the installer has added one.  In the ftp series, I
had tried using non-anonymous ftp so that vsftpd would accept full
paths so long as the user used haw permission for those directories
and /var/ftp/pub/d1 in case the double slash was causing ftp to try to
go from the root filesystem, but no joy.  (Again, all of these access
methods work from knoppix using the command line ftp client in active
or passive modes, and using konqurer.)

	Can anyone with name server experience suggest a toy nameserver
configuration file just to serve up 192.168.0.2 in response to some
simple name?  (I could RTFM, but I really don't have a general need to
know how to set up name servers.  If only there were a bach VT running
at this point, I could probably type in an etc/hosts and resolve.conf
on the RAM fs that the installer is probably running on, but alas...)

							Bill