F17 self-built boot.iso queries

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 14:21 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 08:57 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 May 2012 20:09:53 +0530
> > Amit Saha <amitksaha at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello all:
> > > 
> > > I built a boot.iso with 'lorax' using Fedora 17 release,version using
> > > the default templates:
> > > 
> > > $ sudo lorax --buildarch=i386 -p fedora -v 17 -r 17 -s
> > > http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/development/17/i386/os/ lorax_op
> > > 
> > > I faced a couple of issues:
> > > 
> > > 1. When i boot it using qemu/VirualBox, after selecting the install
> > > option, the process stops with a white screen. Any reason for this?
> > 
> > Do you have any logs for the install? That doesn't ring any bells
> > regarding bugs that we've seen thus far but I'm also not sure that
> > we've done any spins with just F17 stable, either.
> > 
> > > 2. When I boot it on bare metal after burning to a USB stick, the
> > > installer goes to the storage device selection stage. I already have
> > > a Fedora 17 installation on disk, which the new installation isn't
> > > very happy with and complains that it cannot proceed with the
> > > installation. Is this expected?
> > 
> > It's likely that the packages on the boot.iso are older than your base
> > system if you've been keeping it up to date with updates-testing. I'm
> > not 100% clear on how upgrades work on the same base version but that
> > could be part of the problem (assuming that F17->F17 'upgrades' are
> > supposed to work and I'm not sure that they are).
> 
> No they're not. I'm not sure Amit isn't misreading the message. When you
> install to a system with F17 already installed you'll get a screen
> saying it can't upgrade, 'likely because your installed version of
> Fedora is too old'. This is a bit confusing, but the key point is this
> is just a warning that upgrade isn't possible, and you can happily
> proceed with a fresh install. If Amit is seeing a different screen, more
> details would be helpful.

Actually, sorry, I was a bit wrong there. That's what happens when you
boot an _older_ installer than the installed system, not when they're
equal. So I'm really not sure what message Amit saw exactly.
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