On Sunday 11 November 2007, Björn Persson wrote: > I managed to make use of the DVD image I had downloaded even though I had > to resort to upgrading via Yum. I wrote the file > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-iso.repo like this: > > [fedora ISO] > name=Fedora ISO $releasever - $basearch > baseurl=file:///urrrrk/ > metadata_expire=-1 > cost=500 > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY > > Yum will then not download a package if it's available on the DVD image, so > most of the data for this upgrade was downloaded through Bittorrent. > > For some deranged reason Yum complained when the DVD image was mounted > on /mnt, claiming that pretty much every package required 8 kB of space on > "the /mnt filesystem", so I created a new directory (called /urrrrk) and > mounted the image there. > > I had to remove a few packages to make Yum happy, so it's quite possible > that Anaconda could have worked once those packages were gone, but with > this method I can at least see *which* packages cause trouble, and it saves > a lot of rebooting :-) I'll try this method on my other systems. This should make upgrading also a bit faster. I currently managed to upgrade two systems via the net. I enabled some repositories straight away in the upgrade process and let it run over night. Besides minor issues (no nvidia package found for the latest kernel for example) I have not seen many issues. I replaced the latest kernel by stock Fedora 8 kernel and was able to get the nvidia drivers going in a few minutes. The only issue I still have is a problem in yumex : 09:55:25 : Failure getting http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/fedora/linux/updates/8/x86_64/repodata/comps-f8.xml: 09:55:25 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum 09:55:25 : Trying other mirror. 09:55:26 : Failure getting http://ftp.SURFnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/fedora/linux/updates/8/x86_64/repodata/comps-f8.xml: 09:55:26 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum 09:55:26 : Trying other mirror. 09:55:28 : Failure getting ftp://ftp.tudelft.nl/pub/Linux/download.fedora.redhat.com/linux/updates/8/x86_64/repodata/comps-f8.xml: 09:55:28 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum 09:55:28 : Trying other mirror. 09:55:29 : Failure getting ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/x86_64/repodata/comps-f8.xml: 09:55:29 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum 09:55:29 : Trying other mirror. 09:55:50 : failure: repodata/comps-f8.xml from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Regards, Marcel
