Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with repomd.xml error 256

[Mallasch, Paul]

I've seen some other posts that seem to indicate that FC5 Anaconda may
have a problem installing from HD, but a search of Bugzilla doesn't
indicate any problems with IDE drives, only USB drives. 

Did I miss a post or bug report somewhere?  Has it been fixed or is a
work-around available?

ThX

-----Original Message-----
This problem persists for me as well, although the ISO's checksum and
installation are perfectly happy on a virtual machine in VMware, but not
on a headless blade P3 machine I'm using.  A CD installation works fine,
but I must have a hard drive installation for our solution.
 
Things I've done so far:
- checkisomd5 of ISO okay
- all files including repodata directory and file permissions okay
- repodata directory tree is a peer to Fedora okay
- sha1sums of files in repodata okay
- even changed ISO name to FC-5-i386-disc1.iso (small distro so only one
disc, but not required  on my VM test)
 
Stuff I've noticed that gives me pause:
- Seeing some "unable to load nls charset utf8" messages in both CD and
HD installs, but CD installs happily as is.
 
Any other ideas are appreciated!


On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 10:10 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to install fedora with alternate install method (hard 
> drive installation) as described in the install guide with the iso 
> images. Am able to boot into a text mode installation and it correctly

> takes the path of the 5 iso's  and all the screens for network and 
> grub etc. are fine until I think when it tries to read package info 
> and it crashes with the follo error -
> --------------------
> 
> Unable to read package metadata
> Cannot open/read rcpomd.xml file for repository.
> Failure : repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: [Errno 256]
> ------
>
> The ISO images must be named EXACTLY as they are on the download site 
> (including capitalization) and you must make certain they are readable

> by everyone.
>
> If you're installing FC5 for a 32-bit Intel machine, the ISOs MUST be>
> named:
>
>	FC-5-i386-disc1.iso
>	FC-5-i386-disc2.iso
>	FC-5-i386-disc3.iso
>	FC-5-i386-disc4.iso
>	FC-5-i386-disc5.iso
>
> Or, using the DVD ISO image:
>
>	FC-5-i386-DVD.iso
>