Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?
James Rogers wrote: Try setting 'export http_proxy=http://192.168.65.253:8080' once you have a shell (ie press CTRL-ALt-F1/2/3) when the installer has begun. Ok, proxy problem solved using another method, but now I get an error: Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: anaconda- base-200711021053.i386. Please verify its path and try again. Abort? I've googled this, but the only responses I can find refer to CDROM installs. Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - The fury with which untenable beliefs are defended is inversely proportional to their defensibility. -- Richard Dawkins -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?
Geez, I have been spoilt. I've been doing Debian net installs for what must be close to a decade. Give it a break. Distributions have their strengths and weaknesses, otherwise we'd all use the One Distro to Rule Them All. Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: anaconda- base-200711021053.i386. Please verify its path and try again. Abort? I've googled this, but the only responses I can find refer to CDROM installs. Did you do a recursive copy? The repodata (repository data) is a package manager-independent way of listing packages, their information, and their dependencies. It is in a directory named repodata. Repodata is created using the createrepo command. This is in the createrepo package in almost all distros. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?
Peter Hardy wrote: What you want is the minimal boot media. Thats a 9 Meg ISO. Its a minimal boot media not minimal install media. I've reached a step which it says : Please enter the following information: - the name or IP address of your web server - Fedora directory and no idea where to get this information, even after I digging around: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/ Clues? Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - Gambling(n): A discretionary tax on those asleep during high school maths. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?
As per http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/sn-install-tcpip-config.html Find a mirror http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mirrors put /7/Fedora/architecture/os/ on the end of it Where I presume 7 refers to the release so change that to match the release you want. Regards James 2008/5/9 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Peter Hardy wrote: What you want is the minimal boot media. Thats a 9 Meg ISO. Its a minimal boot media not minimal install media. I've reached a step which it says : Please enter the following information: - the name or IP address of your web server - Fedora directory and no idea where to get this information, even after I digging around: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/ Clues? Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - Gambling(n): A discretionary tax on those asleep during high school maths. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?
James Rogers wrote: As per http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/sn-install-tcpip-config.html Find a mirror http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mirrors put /7/Fedora/architecture/os/ on the end of it Where I presume 7 refers to the release so change that to match the release you want. Ok, thats better. I entered values of: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/ but it never asked me for information about a http proxy. Can fedora do a net install via a proxy? Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - Lumping configuration data, security data, kernel tuning parameters, etc. into one monstrous fragile binary data structure is really dumb. - David F. Skoll -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 22:09 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Can fedora do a net install via a proxy? No. It's supposedly going to be half-there in Fedora 8 (proxying will work from stage 2 of the install onwards). You can bodgy it. Set up a transparent proxy and re-write the URLs the use the explicit proxy. Plan B is simply to download the whole thing to somewhere local using wget and run a HTTP server from there. That's how I upgrade my machines at home, since it avoids multiple downloads from the ISP and is much faster than an install from a DVD, taking maybe 15 minutes. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?
Hi Glen, Thanks for the response. Glen Turner wrote: You can bodgy it. Set up a transparent proxy and re-write the URLs the use the explicit proxy. That sounds like a bit of a hassle. Plan B is simply to download the whole thing to somewhere local using wget and run a HTTP server from there. That's how I upgrade my machines at home, since it avoids multiple downloads from the ISP and is much faster than an install from a DVD, taking maybe 15 minutes. Geez, I have been spoilt. I've been doing Debian net installs for what must be close to a decade. I *know* this is saving me bandwidth. For instance I've run up a Debian i386 instance in a Qemu VM. The Qemu disk img after a complete install with all the dev tools I need for testing but without X is 1.7 Gig. If the installed image is 1.7 Gig, what I downloaded (ie compressed packages) was *way* smaller than 1.7Gig. The Fedora alternative seems to be to downlaod a 3.4 Gig ISO. Sorry I'm not buying. I'll wait until Fedora joins us in the 1990s or fiddle with the proxy solution. Cheers, Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - There is no truth on earth but monotheism and following tenets of Islam and there is no way for salvation of mankind but rule of Islam over mankind, -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0708142013173859.htm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?
Try setting 'export http_proxy=http://192.168.65.253:8080' once you have a shell (ie press CTRL-ALt-F1/2/3) when the installer has begun. Regards James 2008/5/9 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: James Rogers wrote: As per http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/sn-install-tcpip-config.html Find a mirror http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mirrors put /7/Fedora/architecture/os/ on the end of it Where I presume 7 refers to the release so change that to match the release you want. Ok, thats better. I entered values of: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/ but it never asked me for information about a http proxy. Can fedora do a net install via a proxy? Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - Lumping configuration data, security data, kernel tuning parameters, etc. into one monstrous fragile binary data structure is really dumb. - David F. Skoll -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?
Try killing the installer then setting 'export http_proxy=http://192.168.65.253:8080' then running the installer Regards James 2008/5/10 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Glen, Thanks for the response. Glen Turner wrote: You can bodgy it. Set up a transparent proxy and re-write the URLs the use the explicit proxy. That sounds like a bit of a hassle. Plan B is simply to download the whole thing to somewhere local using wget and run a HTTP server from there. That's how I upgrade my machines at home, since it avoids multiple downloads from the ISP and is much faster than an install from a DVD, taking maybe 15 minutes. Geez, I have been spoilt. I've been doing Debian net installs for what must be close to a decade. I *know* this is saving me bandwidth. For instance I've run up a Debian i386 instance in a Qemu VM. The Qemu disk img after a complete install with all the dev tools I need for testing but without X is 1.7 Gig. If the installed image is 1.7 Gig, what I downloaded (ie compressed packages) was *way* smaller than 1.7Gig. The Fedora alternative seems to be to downlaod a 3.4 Gig ISO. Sorry I'm not buying. I'll wait until Fedora joins us in the 1990s or fiddle with the proxy solution. Cheers, Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - There is no truth on earth but monotheism and following tenets of Islam and there is no way for salvation of mankind but rule of Islam over mankind, -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0708142013173859.htm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Fedora netinst?
Hi all, I want to install Fedora in a qemu VM for testing purposes. Since I'm after a pretty mininal install I'm looking for something like the 150Meg Debian netinst images, but all I can seem to find is 3+ Gig ISOs and rescue images. Is there such a thing as a small Fedora ISO image? Cheers, Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Christian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Muslim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_atheism -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fedora netinst?
Hey hey. On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 21:48 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I want to install Fedora in a qemu VM for testing purposes. Since I'm after a pretty mininal install I'm looking for something like the 150Meg Debian netinst images, but all I can seem to find is 3+ Gig ISOs and rescue images. Is there such a thing as a small Fedora ISO image? What you want is the minimal boot media. The installation guide tells you where to get it; http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/sn-which-files.html -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
