On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
Make an iso file from the image and loop mount the iso on the server where the ftp commands can get at it. > > 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. Fedora 12 won't by default support that processor. 686 class or above. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
