minimal install too minimal

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 17 17:30:36 UTC 2010


On 2010/03/17 09:42 (GMT-0700) Jesse Keating composed:

> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 11:53 -0400, Felix Miata 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.
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546273 suggests no solution.
>> Where are *.repo supposed to be? Why after over a month since that bug was
>> filed doesn't yum just work on a fresh install? How can I fix this without an
>> install do-over not minimal?

> Hrm, you have no repo files?  repo files come from fedora-release and
> fedora-release-rawhide.  Do you have those packages installed?  You
> should.

# rpm -qa | grep edora
fedora-release-13-0.6.noarch
fedora-logos-12.0.3-2.fc13.noarch

> Also your network may not come up until you do a dhclient or whatever is
> necessary for your network device to be brought up, which may be why you
> couldn't get repo data.

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.

> You also didn't specify whether you did a minimal install of rawhide, or
> branched, as they will get different repos.

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/13/i386/os/

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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