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

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:39 -0700, Mallasch, Paul wrote:
> 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?

I've still not had a chance to play with this just yet, but a new
machine is in the works where I will install using a hard disk image--
on IDE, SCSI, USB and Firewire.  I'll let you know what I find, but
it'll be a week or so.

> 
> 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
> >
> 
> 
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