EEEPC FC11 install

[Andrew Cocker]

Hi
I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months on an
Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11 failed so I
have had to restart from scratch.  The EeePC has no optical drive and I have
tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard drive.  I tried both
livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive.  In every
attempt anaconda runs but after I get through the partitioning stage it
creates a file system and then fails with an error message that it cannot
mount the ISO source, usually /dev/sdb1.

Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug?  Should I try reinstalling FC10
and upgrading to FC11 instead?

All advice gratefully received.

[Bill Davidsen]

Andrew Cocker wrote:
>  Hi
>  I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months on an
>  Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11 failed so I
>  have had to restart from scratch.  The EeePC has no optical drive and I have
>  tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard drive.  I tried both
>  livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive.  In every
>  attempt anaconda runs but after I get through the partitioning stage it
>  creates a file system and then fails with an error message that it cannot
>  mount the ISO source, usually /dev/sdb1.
>  
>  Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug?  Should I try reinstalling FC10
>  and upgrading to FC11 instead?
>  
>  All advice gratefully received.
>   
I believe your USB stick is not properly created, because I have been able to 
create bootable and installable USB drives with F11 (rawhide, just prior to 
release). Unless something in the liveCD creator broke just at that time it 
should work. I did FC9 as well, so the process seems to work.

I'll look for the creation instruction links I used, I do have them, but sort of 
dumped in a folder. :-(

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com&gt;
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

[Fred Smith]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:08:29AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 19:49 +1000, Andrew Cocker wrote:
>  > Hi
>  > I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months on an
>  > Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11 failed so I
>  > have had to restart from scratch.  The EeePC has no optical drive and I have
>  > tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard drive.  I tried both
>  > livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive.  In every
>  > attempt anaconda runs but after I get through the partitioning stage it
>  > creates a file system and then fails with an error message that it cannot
>  > mount the ISO source, usually /dev/sdb1.
>  > 
>  > Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug?  Should I try reinstalling FC10
>  > and upgrading to FC11 instead?
>  
>  I started with F10 and upgraded. Everything worked. Probably not
>  relevant but I also dual-boot with Windows so I had to fiddle with the
>  partitioning using gparted from a Live USB stick (the default Asus
>  Windows layout uses all four basic partitions).
>  
>  poc 
Depending on the model, F11 can run quite well. There's a thread on 
the fedora forums about instlaling F11 on the eeepc 901: 

	http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=224741
-- 
---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -----------------------------
                      The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, 
                    keeping watch on the wicked and the good.
----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) -----------------------------

[Timothy Murphy]

Andrew Cocker wrote:

>  I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months
> on an
>  Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11 failed so I
>  have had to restart from scratch.  The EeePC has no optical drive and I
>  have
>  tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard drive.  I tried both
>  livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive.  In every
>  attempt anaconda runs but after I get through the partitioning stage it
>  creates a file system and then fails with an error message that it cannot
>  mount the ISO source, usually /dev/sdb1. 
I got something like this;
as far as I could see, anaconda was looking for install.img
rather than the ISO file.
It seemed as though the ISO file had been dis-assembled.

>  Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug?  Should I try reinstalling
> FC10
>  and upgrading to FC11 instead? 
I guess you could try installing the FC11 Live CD on a USB stick.
(I did that on an EeePC 4G with FC10, using unetbootin .)

I see I made a note at the time:
"The secret seems to be that one must press Esc
when re-booting the EeePC,
rather than going into the BIOS to alter the boot devices".




-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: [phone]
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin 2

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:49:13 +1000
"Andrew Cocker" <andrew(a)cocker.id.au&gt; wrote:

>  Hi
>  I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months
>  on an Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11
>  failed so I have had to restart from scratch.  The EeePC has no
>  optical drive and I have tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard
>  drive.  I tried both livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable
>  USB drive.  In every attempt anaconda runs but after I get through
>  the partitioning stage it creates a file system and then fails with
>  an error message that it cannot mount the ISO source,
>  usually /dev/sdb1.
>
>  Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug?  Should I try reinstalling
>  FC10 and upgrading to FC11 instead? 
Does the error look anything like any of the ones at: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs#Installation_issues

>  All advice gratefully received. 
If you have another linux machine there you could setup as a PXE
server, you could pxeboot the machine and net install it. ;) 

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/sn-booting-fro...

kevin

[Konstantin Svist]

Andrew Cocker wrote:
>  Hi
>  I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months on an
>  Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11 failed so I
>  have had to restart from scratch.  The EeePC has no optical drive and I have
>  tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard drive.  I tried both
>  livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive.  In every
>  attempt anaconda runs but after I get through the partitioning stage it
>  creates a file system and then fails with an error message that it cannot
>  mount the ISO source, usually /dev/sdb1.
>
>  Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug?  Should I try reinstalling FC10
>  and upgrading to FC11 instead?
>
>  All advice gratefully received.
>
>     
Try a Live CD: you can boot it to ram (kernel option "live_ram") -- if
you do that, it won't even look for the cd, it will just copy the image
straight from memory.
I could be wrong about this, though

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 19:49 +1000, Andrew Cocker wrote:
>  Hi
>  I have had FC10 working surprisingly well as a web server for months on an
>  Asus EeePC (Intel Atom bases mini PC) but an upgrade to FC11 failed so I
>  have had to restart from scratch.  The EeePC has no optical drive and I have
>  tried using both a 4GB USB key and USB hard drive.  I tried both
>  livecd-tools and Unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive.  In every
>  attempt anaconda runs but after I get through the partitioning stage it
>  creates a file system and then fails with an error message that it cannot
>  mount the ISO source, usually /dev/sdb1.
>  
>  Am I doing something dumb, is there a bug?  Should I try reinstalling FC10
>  and upgrading to FC11 instead? 
I started with F10 and upgraded. Everything worked. Probably not
relevant but I also dual-boot with Windows so I had to fiddle with the
partitioning using gparted from a Live USB stick (the default Asus
Windows layout uses all four basic partitions).

poc