no luck installing alpha "Verne" in vbox

Wed Aug 10 16:04:22 UTC 2011

Joshua Andrews <woodguy552010 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> I tried a fresh install and an upgrade from fc15 with the netinstall.iso and
it fails at various stages early in the process - nothing was ever written to
the hard drive in any attempt and there were several.
> I tried preupgrade after finally installing fc15 in order to upgrade it but it
fails with "invalid baseurl..." something or other.

A fresh install from the F16 RC1 DVD worked for me (RC2/RC3 should also work). 
I'm using VirtualBox 4.1.0.