[Fedora-xen] F7 guest install failing on stage2.img

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:34:35AM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> I am attempting to install a paravitualized F7 guest (from this location 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/) 
> onto an FC7 Domu (kernel 2925). It goes through the download process, but 
> continues to fail on the following line from the debug console (Alt-F3):
> 
> INFO: 519444 kB are available
> INFO: transferring 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/disc1/images/stage2.img 
> to a fd
> 
> This occurs whether I install to a file system (in /var/lib/xen/images) 
> or to a raw partition. Is there a simple config issue which I am not 
> selecting?

The 'Everything' location is not an installable tree - it has no 'images'
directory with install images - its merely a YUM repo. For initial install
use

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/

Once installed you can still access all Fedora RPMs.

Regards,
Dan.
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