Getting Rawhide

[John Poelstra]

Will Woods said the following on 01/24/2008 09:02 AM Pacific Time:
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 07:05 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
>> Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>>> Could someone post an exact cookbook for installing rawhide
>>> on an x86_64 machine?
>>>
>>> I tried diskboot with several URLs but it always failed not being able
>>> to access one or more files.
>>>
>>> I tried loading FC8 and, setting the repository to development,
>>> and then upgrading but this results in many conflicts with fc8
>>> versions as well as missing dependencies.
>>>
>>> What is the correct procedure, exactly?
>> Basically, three options at the moment:
>> 1) network install from boot.iso
>> 2) network install from rescue image
>> 3) update from an F8 install
> 
> One of the easier ways - if you have Fedora already running on the
> machine - is to use SNAKE. This is the method I use for most of my
> install testing. In the simplest case, it goes like this:
> 
> 0. su -, yum install snake
> 1. snake-install [rawhide tree url]
> 2. reboot
> 
> snake-install will pull down the kernel and initrd and modify the
> bootloader. When you reboot, it will boot into stage 1 of the installer,
> defaulting to dhcp networking, en_US language/keymap, then automatically
> pull down the rest of the installer and anaconda should start.
> 
> If the install fails.. I grab a Live image and reinstall F8.
> 

Or better yet, use virtualization and it takes a fraction of the time to 
recover.

1) create a known good install of F8 or F7
2) create a snapshot of it or clone it
3) attempt rawhide install
4) if the install fails revert to "known good snapshot"