minimal install too minimal

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 17:05:54 UTC 2010


On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:53:14 -0400, Felix wrote:

> I just did a minimal via http (mirrors.kernel.org). First thing on first
> login I did 'mc'. -bash: mc: command not found, followed by 'yum install mc',
> resulting in 'Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again.' Also, '-bash: man:
> command not found'. This minimal is really too minimal.
> 
> I see in /etc/yum no *.repo files.

That's the wrong place to look for default .repo files.
Btw, a few lines above, you quote an error message that referred to repo
"fedora". It would only do that with an existing .repo definition for
that. I'd rather think your networking wasn't working.


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