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

[Steven Haigh]

On 26/09/10 13:53, He Rui wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 03:43 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> 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.
>
> This is not as expected. DVD installation is a basic test included in
> the pre-release validation install tests, and we've verified that media
> repo will be selected as default if install from Beta RC3 DVD at least
> both on kvm and bare metal. The iso should be mounted on /mnt/source
> where the packages are stored. So can you provide the details of your
> installation steps and environment? And the contents
> in /tmp/anaconda.log? Is this bug[1] similar to yours? Thanks in
> advance.
>
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627789
>

I did see this bug report - but after the install had completed - this 
being the case I didn't get a chance to see the log. Silly me also 
deleted the ks/other logs in /root after the install (it was very very 
early in the morning after tinkering all night!)

As I can reproduce it every time, I'll start running the install up 
until where the issue happens and see what info I can gather. 
Thankfully, as long as I don't set any paritions to format, it shouldn't 
kill my (eventually) successful install.

>> 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 :(
>
> I've also read your another thread. Well, have you noticed the test
> announcements(eg.[2]) sent out when each build was available? We did it
> every time and both installation and desktop tests were executed and the
> results were provided on the results pages[3]. Then based on the results
> and other bugs on bugzilla, the candidate was considered if it met the
> release criteria[4] or not. So DVD installation would surely be tested
> before released, but everyone has different install environment, we
> cannot guarantee it passes in every way. However, if you encountered an
> issue, discussion is welcomed in the list to help find the root cause
> and resolve the problem.
>
> Also if you have any suggestion for the installation validation test[5],
> feel free to talk. :)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Hurry
>
> [2]
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093947.html
>
> [3]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_14_Test_Results
>
> [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Beta_Release_Criteria
>
> [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing
>
>

Good info to know. I did remember seeing a few install reports, but 
nothing I saw while I was struggling with the install seemed to line up 
with what I was seeing.

-- 
Steven Haigh

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