FC2 devel/i386 vs VIA EPIA boards

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hello Zoltán,

> "The Fedora Core installation tree
>   in that directory does not seem to
>   match your boot media."
> 
> Catch 22...

Not really. The above message suggests that you need to create an
installation medium (cd, floppy) that matches the version of Fedora that
you want to install.

Assuming you have the full FC2 devel tree you should be able to use one
of the boot images from that tree. You can't expect an old installer to
support a new release.

By the way, as long as the versions of RPM are compatible (ie create
identical databases) you can always install to a mounted disk using
# rpm --root /mnt/disk -I *.rpm

If you have the rpmdb installed and /etc/rpm/macro* configured correctly
you can install a base system adding --aid to the above command and
specifying an rpm. Installing kernel.rpm like this will render a minimal
setup without rpm (< 200MB), installing rpm.rpm with --aid will be close
to a "minimal install" as provided by the installer.

# rpm --root /mnt/disk -I --aid rpm-4*.rpm

Bye,
Leonard.