# Receiving Message "\*\*\* No Repository Found"

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/receiving-message-no-repository-found/23055>\
**Category:** SLES for System Z\
**Created:** [September 5, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/receiving-message-no-repository-found/23055 "2012-09-05T20:56:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![svellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@svellis](https://forums.suse.com/u/svellis)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/receiving-message-no-repository-found/23055/1 "2012-09-05T20:56:13Z")

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Attempting to install zLinux from z/VM guest.  
Using SMB to talk to installation DVD on my Windows-7 laptop.

Have the drive letter “D” as the share name and using “d:\boot\s390x” as the directory name. I also tried using “\boot\s390x”.

I get the message “\*\*\* No Repository Found”.

I assume I’m doing something incorrectly, but the install doc doesn’t give much information and assumes you have a knowledge that may or may not exist.

Has anyone else run into this issue?

BTW, I received the same message trying to use FTP.

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**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/receiving-message-no-repository-found/23055/2 "2012-09-06T14:22:13Z")

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Hi svellis,

while I’ve not yet had a chance to toy with z/VM Linux, the typical “” vs. “/” problem comes to mind: On Unix, “” is interpreted as an “escape character” to i.e. enter special characters. Have you tried using the Unix-typical path separator character “/” (forward slash) instead?

So the complete resource name, as seen from Linux, might be //yourlaptopname/D/boot/s390x. That’d be “yourlaptopname” as the host, “D” as the share and “/boot/s390x” as the directory name.

Regards,  
Jens