minimal install too minimal

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Mar 17 17:36:51 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 13:30 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> 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

Actually you do have repo files, in fact yum tried to use them to hit
the 'fedora' repo but since your network wasn't up it couldn't.  You
have all the required packages for yum to operate.

> 
> > 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.

fedora-release-rawhide was unnecessary in this case.

> 
> Thanks! :-)
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> 
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> 
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