F14 Anaconda network Installation

[lewis41]

Hello everyone on this forum,
i wish to install F14 using the procedure indicated here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Branched#Installing_via_Anaconda
I'm using the F13 DVD, and following the on-screen graphical instructions, i added a mirror repository (e.g. http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/14/i386/os), to the repos page of the install wizard but with no connection to the mirror.
The messages are:
"Trying to download" and after some time
"Error:Unable to read package metadata from repository. etc".
The same happens when selecting an update or test repo for F13, so this should be a misconfigured network setting.

A solution is: don't add a new repo, but replace the INSTALL REPO with the mirror from where to download.

With the F13 DVD i've tried passing Anaconda the askmethod boot option; it seems to go:
it configures DHCP but after having downloaded the *.img it stops with a phyton error

The same error happens when trying with a minimal entry in Grub
root (h1,1) the installation partition
kernel /boot//vmlinuz lang=it_IT keymap=it method=http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/14/i386/os/ ip=dhcp
initrd /boot/initrd.img

where vmlinuz and initrd.img are F14 files downloaded from repo.

(...)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/sysconfig.py", line 285, in _init_posix
raise IOError(msg)
IOError: Invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig-32.h (No such file or directory)
install exited abnormally [1/1].

Has anyone had a similar problem with this type of installation?

Thank you
Luigi

P.S. Ok, perhaps i pretend too much
1. this is my first attempt with a direct network installation
2. F14 is still a pre-pre alpha

(continue)
Yes, the reason is in point 2. of P.S.: the *.img of the phase (1) 2 (?) of anaconda stage has some problem.
Trying to download a *.img for F13 using the DVD with a minimal installer loads the Anaconda graphical interface as requested. So i'll wait ...

Sorry for my excessive anxiousness claim!

[mtk]

i ran into the same problem (the missing python 2.7 error) running preupgrade from FC13 to FC14. everything else worked (downloads, building the local upgrade repo, etc).

any thoughts/suggestions on this?

/mark

[bob]

(moved to Rawhide until I can figure out why Fedora 14's Forum is "no posting")

[mtk]

i didn't post in rawhide because the description for the rawhide forums says *not* for FC14. so i'm confused.

[bob]

Yeah, it's a technical glitch. We "almost" had a F14 Development Forum going there, but it's temporarily invisible until Alpha comes along. With the potential creation of the F14 Forum, that comment was added to Rawhide. I just removed it and yeah, for now, Rawhide's the right place.

Maybe in a few days we'll get it fixed.

Edit: AHA! I just saw the "Branch F14" note here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule which is a good reason to open the F14 Forum, which Dan tried to do on 7/27 but foolishly listened to my mutterings. I'll fix it all now.

[mtk]

i understand that the rawhide forum is used before an alpha/beta release is avail. FC14 just started to show up as a preupgrade choice recently. so are you saying there is now an official FC14 alpha release and we *should* use an FC14 forum instead of the rawhide forum?

[lewis41]

Hi mtk & bob,
after a retry the net installation got right, using the F13 DVD. (WOW!) Even if it took some time, to finish, (~ 3/4 hour): the downolad interrupted some times: with a strange rsyslog run failed with error -2068; yum repo error. Fortunately that the download restarted from the interruption point!

I find this type of installation very progressive!

[lewis41]

Using the new iso. (For adventurers or avant-garde informatics: F14 Alpha RC1 (Release Candidate 1) was released today).

Greetings.

[GoinEasy9]

If anyone has installed the RC1, can you tell us what version of systemd came with it? I'm hoping systemd 6-1. I just saw that there was 6-2 released, I wonder if that got in. Anybody?

[mtk]

from where do you get FC14 alpha RC1?

[tox]

from where do you get FC14 alpha RC1?
http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Alpha.RC2/Fedora/i386/iso/ or 64bit there here http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Alpha.RC2/Fedora/x86_64/iso/

[lewis41]

If anyone has installed the RC1, can you tell us what version of systemd came with it? I'm hoping systemd 6-1. I just saw that there was 6-2 released, I wonder if that got in. Anybody?

Name : systemd
Arch : i686
Version : 5
Release : 2.fc14
Repo : updates-testing

[GoinEasy9]

Thanks lewis41
Geez 5-2 in updates-testing, I'm waiting for at least 6-1.

[errorxp]

I booted with BFO and selected to install F14. Everything goes smoothly until starting the install process - it says a bunch of packages are corrupt or missing. I pretty much selected the default gnome install. What's the deal?

[mtk]

i'm 0-3 using preupgrade on a fresh FC13 install under vmware. i'm 0-1 using the DVD iso under vmware.
not complaining, just reporting. i know it isn't even alpha yet.

/mark

[GoinEasy9]

As of yesterday, there is a missing dependency preventing install of gnome-media and gnome-bluetooth. All I had to do is disable (or not enable in the first place) the extra repos (especially not updates-testing) and the install went without incident. You can update the install afterwards with --skip-broken.