fedora 3 latest ISO images
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Tue Feb 8 01:45:26 UTC 2005
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:36:46PM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>
>>installed from rawhide. With rawhide, you need to get the boot.iso on
>>the same day that you want to perform the upgrade/install. I believe
>>this is highly related to anaconda and the installer image that is used.
>
>
> It's simply because there's two parts to anaconda, the first boot stage and
> then the main second stage. These have a serial number which has to match.
> RH just bumps the number every time the install image gets rebuilt; if
> you're doing it yourself, you can actually do it manually and only increment
> the number when you know there's some incompatibility.
>
> Not that you probably care about this. :)
>
>
Thanks for the info. I knew that there was a second stage being loaded
after the http or ftp mirror was contacted successfully. I wasn't clear
as to why the boot.iso had to be downloaded for the day the
installation/upgrade was to be performed.
I successfully installed rawhide using either the first install disk for
the previous release or the rescue disc. I haven't tried to install
rawhide with this method recently though.
After I changed over to using the bot.iso, I went through a few CDR's
before I wised up a bit and changed to using a CD-RW. Why it needed to
be different every day was a mystery.
:-)
Jim
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