I'm getting smarter about this, but I'm still having problems. It seems around Fedora Core 5 that things get broken. Network installs fail for Fedora 9 with cannot find group information errors and no advice on how to fix that. Yes, I've tried the -g option when I do createrepo on the CentOS box.
I've discovered that for pre Fedora Core 5 Fedora's where I have multiple CD images on the server that I can use links to access all the rpms from one directory and not absorb tons of disk space. If the directory structure on the ftp server is correct, you are golden. Not so for Fedora Core 5 and later though. Fedora Core 5 even may be too old to build an LFS 6.6 system on. So given a Fedora 9 DVD that normally I could install from directly, how to I put this information on a server in such a fashion that the network installer won't puke? The only hint I have is an error that /sbin/lspci doesn't exist (makes no sense how this has anything to do with failing to find group information). I have googled and googled and googled. Nobody tells you what to do on the server side of a network installation of Fedora Core 5 or later. Something definitely has changed. I can network install Fedora 12, but not to a K6-2 500. So by Fedora 12 things may have gotten better. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
