Problems with FC5 test 2

[David Timms]

shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:

>Linuxer Wang wrote:
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>>1. Remote installation: I can't install FC5 test2 from a remote ftp
>>server. The iso is for DVD. When I tried to connect, it responses:
>>Unable to get the file ftp://192.168.10.1//fc5/repodata/repomd.xml. The
>>file IS there, and can be accessed, so I wonder if it should be
>>192.168.10.1/fc5/, not 192.168.10.1//fc5/?
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>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178241#c2
>ppc hdinst iso - failure: repodata/repomd.xml
>i386 hdinst iso - failure: repodata/repomd.xml
>? ftp/dvd-iso - unable to get the file ftp://..../repodata/repomd.xml
>? netinst ? - Fedora/repodata/ Fedora/disc1/repodata/
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>it seems that anaconda has some problems with repodata/repomd.xml
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Can you check whether a command line ftp to the location works OK and
that the file is listed and retrievable ?

When I had similar trouble, I ran ethereal on the ftp server, and was
able to find what path the remote client was really asking for...
pointing to permissions and other misconfiguring I had done to the server.