F14 Beta RC3 install from DVD is a world of hurt.

[Steven Haigh]

Hi all,

I've tried just about everything over the last 12 hours to get F14 Beta 3 to
install from DVD with no success.

I've been booting from the DVD and found that at the repo selection screen,
only internet repos are found. The install DVD is lost and the installation
will not proceed without downloading all packages from an internet repo.
This defeats the purpose of having a DVD... I could see the packages in
/mnt/sysimage (I think), and the DVD was certainly present, just ignored.

I also found that when doing an ethereal dump on my ASDL connection that
each package seemed to be downloaded twice. For each package that was
downloaded, I saw 2 separate GET requests heading to the web server. I could
not find any specific information about this from the installer.

I also noticed that the defaults for an XFS filesystem are to continue to
use a 256 byte inode. This is VERY suboptimal with selinux enabled and can
cause major performance issues. I lodged a bug on this here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637369

All in all, for a Beta GOLD release, I would have at least expected the DVD
installation to be tested before RC3 was declared gold :(

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Steven Haigh

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