Re: yum error creating exported file system for diskless client

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I went through the files in the yum.repos.d directory including fedora.repo, fedora-updates.rep and fedora-updates-testing.repo, and swapped out the baseurl lines with macro variables with an absolute repo's URL, ie:

#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
baseurl=http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/releases/13/Everything/x86_64/os/

That worked.  I was able to install base OS and follow all the other steps.  I am now having a different issue with the tftp timing out on the diskless workstation, but that may be related to the motherboard's built-in Ethernet port or a conflict with dnsmasq and tftpd.  Still working on that, but if taking the macro variables out of the baseurl gives anyone a hint as to what this problem was, please let me know.  I was not having any problems with normal yum updates, just installing the OS into a different directory, so I will probably switch the baseurl back.  Thank you for any help.

On 02/06/2011 04:22 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote:
I was following the directions in Chapter 18. Setting Up A Remote Diskless System and got to 18.3 where it said Fedora could be installed to a directory that would be exported.  I had previously created a 2GB ext4 LVM volume and mounted it at /diskless/myhostname and then attempted to execute the yum command:

[root@myserver yum.repos.d]# yum groupinstall Base --installroot=/diskless/myhostname
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
fedora/metalink                                                                                                            |  18 kB     00:00    
Could not parse metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=x86_64 error was
No repomd file
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
[root@myserver yum.repos.d]#

yum update works fine.  I tried doing a "yum clean all".  Did not fix it.  What step am I missing?  Thank you.

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