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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:30:36 -0400
From: Felix Miata <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
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Subject: Re: minimal install too minimal
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On 2010/03/17 09:42 (GMT-0700) Jesse Keating composed:
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 11:53 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">>> </span>I just did a minimal via http (mirrors.kernel.org). First thing on first
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">>> </span>login I did 'mc'. -bash: mc: command not found, followed by 'yum install mc',
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">>> </span>resulting in 'Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">>> </span>repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again.' Also, '-bash: man:
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">>> </span>command not found'. This minimal is really too minimal.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I have tried the f13 TOC Beta netinstall and f13 TOC Beta DVD; both reverted to text install and the result was a very minimal install.
The minimal install had no yum, no networking....A dead end.
There was no ability to choose any type of install, it went directly to installing.*
The same disks used on a more powerful laptop, gave me a "customize now"
selection and built a working installation of Gnome and sugar desktops.
This means that these disks wil not be usable as a way to install fedora on older, less powerful Computers....
*Dell 520n (intel Core 2 Duo) = text -minimal install
*EeePc900 (Atom Intel) = text -minimal install
Hp tx1000(AMD<tt>Turion)</tt> = Graphical install to 4GB USB from CD - worked fine
VMworkstation=Graphical on Dell 520n - works
Sun Vitualbox=Text and failure to boot at all on Dell 520n (both Disks)
Why is the text based install with Anaconda 13.35 so limited?
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">>> </span>I see in /etc/yum no *.repo files.
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">>> </span><a
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href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546273">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546273</a> suggests no solution.
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">>> </span>Where are *.repo supposed to be? Why after over a month since that bug was
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">>> </span>filed doesn't yum just work on a fresh install? How can I fix this without an
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">>> </span>install do-over not minimal?
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Hrm, you have no repo files? repo files come from fedora-release and
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>fedora-release-rawhide. Do you have those packages installed? You
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>should.
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# rpm -qa | grep edora
fedora-release-13-0.6.noarch
fedora-logos-12.0.3-2.fc13.noarch
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Also your network may not come up until you do a dhclient or whatever is
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>necessary for your network device to be brought up, which may be why you
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>couldn't get repo data.
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My installation boot stanza:
title Install Fedora 13 (hd0,10)
kernel (hd0,6)/f13inst/vmlinuz vga=0x305 asknetwork blacklist=sata_sil
dns=207.6... gateway=192.1... graphical ip=192.1... netmask=255.255.255.0
noipv6 nousb selinux=0 resolution=1024x768 xdriver=intel
initrd (hd0,6)/f13inst/initrd.img
>From this I expected an initial fixed IP configuration ready to work, but
ipconfig shows otherwise. :-( ifup eth0 gets it up, but using DHCP.
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>You also didn't specify whether you did a minimal install of rawhide, or
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>branched, as they will get different repos.
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After manual ifup and installing fedora-release-rawhide yum is working. I
forgot to try yum only after ifup but before manual fedora-release-rawhide
installation.
Thanks! :-)
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