Trying to install F9 alpha failed

Mike mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 18:28:22 UTC 2008


Will Woods <wwoods <at> redhat.com> writes:

> HD installs are known-broken in F9a. See:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431132

Thanks for this pointer.
 

> > I also tried an install using the boot.iso and extracting the  
> > vmlinuz and
> > initrd.img to /boot and making a grub entry so that a URL install to  
> > a mirror
> > could be tried but this failed also - and did not even get to  
> > downloading
> > the second stage install file. The kickstart file was obtained from  
> > one of the
> > mirrors and modified.
> 
> How did it fail? What happened, at what point? Do the logs on the  
> other virtual terminals (Alt-F3 etc.) have any useful info?

I don;t have the details - but it is possible I may have been connected
via wireless rather than wired - so I may try this again and record some
diagnostics.... so that may have been my error rather than the basic method
being wrong.

Can you point me at a url where the various methods are detailed for doing
rawhide installs?

Thanks







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