ARRGH: Anaconda F20: dumb Dumber DUMBEST!

[R. G. Newbury]

On 23/01/14 12:49 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2014, at 8:52 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>> >Now this sort of blind stupidity really irritates the hell out of me.
>> >
>> >I was trying to do a stand-alone install of F20 on my laptop. The installer knows that I have an Intel 3965 wifi setup, but NetworkManager*would not connect*  no matter what I tried. So I continued, without network access.
>> >
>> >Anaconda burped in the middle of the install with a fatal error:  No more mirrors!   I presume it was searching for an update (for PackageKit)...  WTF???
>> >Whoever thought that requiring network access was a good idea needs to be taken out and spanked.
> This is what install media? DVD.iso, netinst.iso, live desktop iso? What is Installation Source set to when this happens? By default it's set to Local Media for DVD and live desktop. And by default in Installation Source the option "Don't install the latest available software updates" is checked. I've done numerous no network installs while QA'ing F20 and have never once encountered what you're reporting.

Hard drive started dieing on Tuesday night. Bought new drive a lunchtime 
yesterday.
Using a DVD iso, installed on a USB stick using (iirc) dd.
This was probably the 20th or 30th install try, what with problems with 
NetworkManager not connecting with wifi and KDE hanging on the kdm 
splash page (*before* login). Finally gave up on KDE after about 4 hours 
last night.

I was sitting at the dining room table (with the wireless router 
approximately directly under my feet in the basement rafters) and no 
wifi through a couple of tries. The network connection "wizard" was 
playing clown, not wizard and refused to do anything.

I cold re-started, *ignored* attempting to connect and continued.
Installation source set to local media (or whatever it is called). On 
this try I was attempting to install w LXDE as the DM,
It barfed.

At work, w network cable plugged in, it automagically connected and the 
install proceeded.

Major pain, and another program is throwing a snit-fit too. If I could 
reliably go back to F17 I would..... but I would be faced with the same 
problem -> No more mirrors!!
Geoff





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