Error trying to install FC13 from my own repo server

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/25/2010 12:20 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have done this since FC10 with no problems.
>
> I first downloaded the 5 iso CD images (back in May, only now getting to
> this) to my server.  I checked the sha256 sigs, and they are all good.
>    

repodata is from: 
http://mirrors.reflected.net/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-13-i386-disc1.iso

I looked again, and the date is still back in may. These files have not 
been updated, and Archive manager is just showing the files with the 
numbers, not the full names...

> via Nautilus, I use Archive Manager to unpack the images to a directory
> on my repo server.
>
> I fix permissions of the directories with:
>
> find . -type d | xargs chmod 755
>
> Now all the directories show up when I look at http:/myserver/fedora/13/os/
>
> I boot with CD 1, and add 'askmethod' in the install, and the install
> proceeds, using stuff from my server.
>
> I got through setting up the partitions how I want and formating them,
> then at the install bootloader screen, I get the error:
>
> Unable to read package metadata from repository.  This may be due to a
> missing repodata directory.  Please ensure that your repository has been
> correctly generated.
>
> Failure:
>
> repodata/60a1afe531cccbb67decbb4904527de1c186f01a5a8613adc4a8a1751aa26545-primary.sqlite.bz2
> from Uledited_0: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>
> ===================
>
> So my /os/ directory has:
>
> # ls -ls
> total 288
>     8 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root   4096 Aug 24 16:05 EFI
>    24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18363 Aug 24 15:55 GPL
>     8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Aug 24 15:57 images
>     8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Aug 24 15:57 isolinux
>     8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     95 Aug 24 15:55 media.repo
> 180 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 176128 Aug 24 16:14 Packages
>     8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Aug 24 15:57 repodata
>     4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 Aug 24 16:00 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
>     8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1653 Aug 24 15:55
> RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-13-primary
>     8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3810 Aug 24 15:55 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-13-SPARC
>     4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 Aug 24 16:00 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386
>     4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 Aug 24 16:00 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc
>     4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 Aug 24 16:00 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-sparc64
>     4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 Aug 24 16:00 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64
>     8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2452 Aug 24 15:55 TRANS.TBL
>
> and the repodata directory is:
>
> # ls -ls
> total 11892
> 2480 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2530472 Aug 24 15:57
> 2784626eab62067b2f24794244aea3434f703857f7796e0a983805fc32413337
>    920 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  931636 Aug 24 15:57
> 2bc4b6b8b9e1364a07f1a507b173be578623c51ff07eaad71253b562047bae91
>    932 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  942458 Aug 24 15:57
> 58c9bdc6c740b9cb0be42c076a44b38225637a3138259c8ddecca6dc327f25cf
> 1788 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1822458 Aug 24 15:57
> 60a1afe531cccbb67decbb4904527de1c186f01a5a8613adc4a8a1751aa26545
>    932 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  945455 Aug 24 15:57
> 95d867aa16a04dea52eaf9a6e906249adcb58a19ece2527f1bb5356353084ee1
> 2332 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2379681 Aug 24 15:57
> aadb794c42a6496c46aef8269b468d3103bc7dd75ea1efa0b49a173e9b7709ca
>    396 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  396764 Aug 24 15:57
> e1153bb33f32f3e13c41fef8cc9d341da5e3df83017ef600b28e513f3cea5453
>    396 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  396758 Aug 24 15:57
> f2f52d2357006150e947a070303a05881f97b0b6aac99ccca87357d4ebd3a356
> 1696 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1726573 Aug 24 15:57
> fce31f091be8211a394d8942fcf4f6cbeffa3d40d87b61af55a97b1a88b46987
>     12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    4127 Aug 24 15:57 repomd.xml
>      8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    2874 Aug 24 15:57 TRANS.TBL
>
> =====================================================
>
> What is the problem?
>