Local Network Installation via HTTP or FTP Fails

Antti antti at victoria.fi
Mon Mar 15 08:58:50 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 04:05, Adam Scarcella wrote:
> I have been desperately trying to perform a "clean-install" of FC2 since
> it's release.
> 
> I downloaded FC2-test1 using the torrent file FC2-test1-binary-i386.torrent
> 
> MD5SUM's were correct and the images burned without a problem, but for some
> strange reason, my IBM ThinkPad A30 will not boot properly from the burned
> ISO images. I even burned "boot.iso" alone and it failed exactly the same
> way, "installation unexpectedly quit"
> 
> So instead I downloaded the entire /development directory from:
> 
>     http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/
> 
> And now I'm trying to install "rawhide" using a local server. Once again I
> burned "boot.iso" from the downloaded /development directory and began the
> installation as usual.
> 
> I've now tried HTTP and FTP without success. It just dies at the "retrieving
> base/stage2.img" screen. I realize that "stage2.img" is roughly 66MB but I'm
> on a local network so it should've only taken a few minutes. I let it go all
> night and it was still on the same screen in the morning. It dies the same
> way with both HTTP or FTP. I'm frustrated and confused.
> 
> I've successfully installed FC1 using HTTP, FTP, and NFS on prior occasions.
> I don't understand why I can't seem to get it to work now for FC2.
> 
> I have an NFS server on my local network that I've used to install FC1 and
> it has always worked in the past. However, since NFS requires an ISO image,
> NFS is not an option for a rawhide installation of RPMs.
> 
> I have always used either HTTP of FTP on my local network to install
> "rawhide" development packages in the past. Is there something that I'm
> missing?
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> Adam =)
> 
> 

AFAIK there's no bootdisk.img nor drvnet.img for FC2t1. Where did you
find a floppy boot image?

-- 
-a





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