Got the error yesterday while trying to install WebSphere using RAFW on an old Linux installation, having the media-folder mounted from a network share on a Windows XP-box. I had unzipped the tar-files containing the installation binaries on my own laptop, then just copied them using Windows Explorer to the pc where I had shared out the folder. Apparently it should be no problem doing this, I could without any problem navigate down the folder structure on the Linux machine viewing all the files. But still I got errors such as the
UNIXProcess.forkAndExec native error: No such file or directory
and later while changing the log level to =ALL, I found
/usr/RAFW/product/actions/install/was/common/install_update_was_common.xml:89: /usr/RAFW/media/linux/X32/was/70/patches/was70_fp13 not found.
but, it was there, I know…
So, after receiving a tip from my colleagues, I deleted the media tree, using ftp transferred the tar-files containing the binaries to the pc with the share, installed Cygwin and unpacked the files using the tar command. Voila…problem solved…stupid, stupid!!! But problem gone, on to the next…