F14 Beta RC3 install from DVD is a world of hurt.

[He Rui]

Hi Steven,

On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 03:43 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've tried just about everything over the last 12 hours to get F14 Beta 3 to
> install from DVD with no success.
> 
> I've been booting from the DVD and found that at the repo selection screen,
> only internet repos are found. The install DVD is lost and the installation
> will not proceed without downloading all packages from an internet repo.
> This defeats the purpose of having a DVD... I could see the packages in
> /mnt/sysimage (I think), and the DVD was certainly present, just ignored.

This is not as expected. DVD installation is a basic test included in
the pre-release validation install tests, and we've verified that media
repo will be selected as default if install from Beta RC3 DVD at least
both on kvm and bare metal. The iso should be mounted on /mnt/source
where the packages are stored. So can you provide the details of your
installation steps and environment? And the contents
in /tmp/anaconda.log? Is this bug[1] similar to yours? Thanks in
advance.


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627789 


> I also found that when doing an ethereal dump on my ASDL connection that
> each package seemed to be downloaded twice. For each package that was
> downloaded, I saw 2 separate GET requests heading to the web server. I could
> not find any specific information about this from the installer.
> 
> I also noticed that the defaults for an XFS filesystem are to continue to
> use a 256 byte inode. This is VERY suboptimal with selinux enabled and can
> cause major performance issues. I lodged a bug on this here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637369
> 
> All in all, for a Beta GOLD release, I would have at least expected the DVD
> installation to be tested before RC3 was declared gold :(

I've also read your another thread. Well, have you noticed the test
announcements(eg.[2]) sent out when each build was available? We did it
every time and both installation and desktop tests were executed and the
results were provided on the results pages[3]. Then based on the results
and other bugs on bugzilla, the candidate was considered if it met the
release criteria[4] or not. So DVD installation would surely be tested
before released, but everyone has different install environment, we
cannot guarantee it passes in every way. However, if you encountered an
issue, discussion is welcomed in the list to help find the root cause
and resolve the problem. 

Also if you have any suggestion for the installation validation test[5],
feel free to talk. :)


Thanks,
Hurry

[2]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093947.html

[3]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_14_Test_Results

[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Beta_Release_Criteria

[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing


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