Trying to install F9 alpha failed

Mike mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 20:30:14 UTC 2008


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

> > 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?

OK I tried again - I pulled the boot.iso file from the 9-Alpha directory
on one of the mirrors since there did not seem to be a boot.iso file
in the development directory.

Then extracted the vmlinuz and initrd.img files from the boot.iso file
booted and selected a url install.  Then pointed it at the 
development/i386/os directory on a mirror but anaconda then failed since
it could not find the stage2 image file since on the mirror there is
no images directory with a stage2 file in it!

So how do others install rawhide apart from doing an upgrade from an
existing fedora by yum updating after enabling the development repo? 







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