On 11/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ali Helmy</b> <<a href="mailto:alihelmy@gmail.com">alihelmy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q">On 11/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ali Helmy</b> <<a href="mailto:alihelmy@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">alihelmy@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="e" id="q_10a8aefba28c3832_1"><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span>On 11/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gordon Messmer</b> <<a href="mailto:yinyang@eburg.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
yinyang@eburg.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ali Helmy wrote:<br>> I already chose a good fedora mirror to work from which is:<br>> <a href="http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/
</a><br>><br>> Ok, so the installer asks me for the web-site name and the Fedora Core<br>> Directory...<br>> what should I enter to that?<br><br>Name: <a href="http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
zeniiia.linux.org.uk
</a><br>Directory: /pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">fedora-list@redhat.com
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https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Thanks mate, but I had to modify it to </div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span><br><br>
Name: <a href="http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">zeniiia.linux.org.uk</a><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Directory: /pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/
<br><br>for the installer to find the /Fedora/base/stage2.img file it needed :)<br><br>Retrieving Fedora/base/stage2.img :)</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span><br clear="all"><br>
-- <br>Cheers,<br> A. Helmy<br>==================<br> One Life... LIVE It
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</span></div></blockquote></div><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Ok, now the installer correctly downloaded stage2.img, then popped up saying hello to fedora... after strting anaconda, still in just red/blue interface, it proceeded to ask me about a few things regarding partitioning and where i wanted fedora installed...
<br><br>then, it said retrieving installation information, went to about 9%, then an error came-out:<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Unable to read package metadata. This maybe due to a missing repodata directory. Pleas ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. failure: repodata/repodata.xml from anaconda [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
</span><br><br>Then it presented me with only one option: Exit!<br><br>What went wrong? my internet connetion is still working and running, apparently... so what happened?</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="e" id="q_10a8aefba28c3832_3">
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br> A. Helmy
<br>==================<br> One Life... LIVE It<br>==================
</span></div></blockquote></div><br>What I just noticed, though, is that <a href="http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os">http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os
</a> does infact contain a directory named /repodata, but this directory however, does not have a repodata.xml file in it...<br><br>However, now i just checked the ftp site for the same mirror [<a href="ftp://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodata">
ftp://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodata</a>] and that has a repomod.xml file... so maybe i read the error wrongly... I'll try now and let you lads know<br clear="all"><br>PS: i know this is sort of turning into a journal, but i was thinking maybe it could be useful later to me, or to other people who might wanna try this later...
<br><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br> A. Helmy<br>==================<br> One Life... LIVE It<br>==================