<div dir="ltr">Jim, I experienced the same issue with Fedora 9 ia64 installation when customizing the default package configuration. Keep the default one and the installation process should work. Hope this helps, Émeric <div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/3 Jim McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jkmccarthy@pacbell.net">jkmccarthy@pacbell.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I downloaded the boot.iso file from <a href="http://secondary.fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">secondary.fedoraproject.org</a> in directory /pub/fedora-secondary/development/ia64/os/images, burned it to disc, and attempted a network install over the weekend. All went more-or-less okay until the repository selection step, when I either got a message "Unable to read package metadata from repository" or end up crashing the install script trying to modify the target repository. For the "development" (rawhide?) version at the above location (or its mirrors), how *should* I select and/or modify the default entries at the repository selection step of the network install process ? This is clearly a shot-in-the-dark, but having done a web search for anything related, I wonder could this be fallout from advisory FEDORA-2008-7748 (PackageKit) updating repo definitions that point to new URLs for the repositories ? (The advisory seems to have been issued 10-Sep-2008, while the boot.iso image file I downloaded appears to have been created on 15-Jul-2008. (If I'm way off here, sorry). Any help on how to point my network install to the right fedora-secondary development repository for ia64 would be much appreciated. Thank you, -- Jim -- Fedora-ia64-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ia64-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ia64-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ia64-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ia64-list</a> </blockquote></div> </div>