Fedora core 5 installation problem

Fedora core 5 installation problem

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson]

Greetings,

I'm trying to upgrade from Fedora core 4 to core 5. I'm doing it from the 
CD images on my fat32 partition. Regardless of whether I choose to upgrade 
or to reinstall, I get the following message:

" Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing
repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been
correctly generated. failure: repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: errno 
256"

However, repodata/repomd.xml is there. I've replaced the disc 1 image with 
one from another mirror but that didn't make any difference.

Has anybody had this problem - and managed to solve it? If so, please let 
me know.

Regards,

Bertil Smark Nilsson

Re: Fedora core 5 installation problem

[Lee Maschmeyer]

Hi,

Unless the sha1sums don't match, there's no need to replace the image. 
(Though when what should work doesn't, trying something else is better than 
blinking at it...)

Unless you're aiming at getting Gnopernicus set up, which I've been toying 
with and failing so far, there's not much reason to go to Fedora 5 imho. The 
thing seems to have been largely ruined by the unrestrained open source 
approach. Note recent organizational changes in Fedora management approach. 
For example, you've got 5 CD images but barely 3 are installed and there's 
no longer an option to install everything. And if you have Gnopernicus 
running on FC4 you should be aware that there are lots of changes that have 
many people on the main Fedora list mad.

I've really worked with only Red Hat Linux (from Linux 8 through Fedora 5). 
Either I'm getting old (I am but...) or this might be a good one to skip.

None of which addresses your question. Sorry...

Good luck,

-- 
Lee Maschmeyer
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For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
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Re: Fedora core 5 installation problem

[Janina Sajka]

They broke the install from hard drive in FC5 and haven't yet fixed it
as far as I'm aware. I've done mine by creating trees on my web server,
but you could also just burn cds. Quite annoying.


Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson writes:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade from Fedora core 4 to core 5. I'm doing it from the 
> CD images on my fat32 partition. Regardless of whether I choose to upgrade 
> or to reinstall, I get the following message:
> 
> " Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing
> repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been
> correctly generated. failure: repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: errno 
> 256"
> 
> However, repodata/repomd.xml is there. I've replaced the disc 1 image with 
> one from another mirror but that didn't make any difference.
> 
> Has anybody had this problem - and managed to solve it? If so, please let 
> me know.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bertil Smark Nilsson
> 
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