[PLUG] Fedora Core network install problems...

[Larry Brigman]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Michael C. Robinson
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> I'm getting smarter about this, but I'm still having problems.
>
> It seems around Fedora Core 5 that things get broken.  Network
> installs fail for Fedora 9 with cannot find group information
> errors and no advice on how to fix that.  Yes, I've tried the
> -g option when I do createrepo on the CentOS box.
>
> I've discovered that for pre Fedora Core 5 Fedora's where I have
> multiple CD images on the server that I can use links to access
> all the rpms from one directory and not absorb tons of disk space.
> If the directory structure on the ftp server is correct, you are
> golden.  Not so for Fedora Core 5 and later though.  Fedora Core 5
> even may be too old to build an LFS 6.6 system on.
>
> So given a Fedora 9 DVD that normally I could install from directly,
> how to I put this information on a server in such a fashion that the
> network installer won't puke?  The only hint I have is an error that
> /sbin/lspci doesn't exist (makes no sense how this has anything to
> do with failing to find group information).

Make an iso file from the image and loop mount the iso on the server
where the ftp commands can
get at it.

>
> I have googled and googled and googled.  Nobody tells you what to do
> on the server side of a network installation of Fedora Core 5 or later.
> Something definitely has changed.  I can network install Fedora 12, but
> not to a K6-2 500.  So by Fedora 12 things may have gotten better.

Fedora 12 won't by default support that processor.  686 class or above.