Strange software selection for F21

Samuel Sieb samuel at sieb.net
Fri Dec 26 22:15:15 UTC 2014


On 12/26/2014 01:35 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> I'm using the Fedora Server 21 netinstall iso on a USB flash drive.
> There was previously an F18 installation on the laptop.  The first time
> I tried to do the install, on the software selection screen, there were
> the Fedora products at the top.  I selected Workstation and the options
> I wanted, then started the install.  Part way through (I wasn't there at
> the time), the laptop turned off for some reason.  I started the install
> again and this time, the default selection was "Gnome Desktop" and there
> was no sign of any products.
>
> Any ideas on what happened?  I'm not referring to the power off, but why
> the software selection options were different the second time.

This is really weird...  For some reason, it's trying to install F19! 
There is no indication in any of the logs why it's doing that.  The USB 
drive had other data on it, so I didn't want to format it.  I deleted 
the original installer image files (F19) and used livecd-iso-to-disk to 
set it up with the F21 netinstall.  Again, the first time, it appeared 
to be installing F21, but any subsequent attempts, it installs F19.  One 
point may be that the first time I tried installing it the network 
wasn't working right away.

Ok, there must be some file(s) still hanging around on that USB drive. 
I just tried a clean, formatted USB drive and now it's installing F21.


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