[Fedora-ia64-list] Report of successfull installation :-)

[Emeric Maschino <maschino jouy inra fr>]

Hi,

Just to let you know that I've successfully installed Fedora Core
development IA-64 on the second HDD of my hp workstation zx6000 via
network. Since no installation image is provided, here's how I did.
You'll need an EFI partition and an other system or Linux installation
in order to extract the needed bits:
- grab the development/ia64/Fedora/RPMS/kernel package and extract the
vmlinuz file to the EFI partition
- grab the development/ia64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img and copy it to the
EFI partition
- copy the elilo.conf and elilo.efi from the RHEL 4 Beta 2 (Nahant) disc
1 (for example) to the EFI partition
- run elilo.efi within the built-in EFI shell. At the ELILO prompt, just
press enter to start the installation in graphical mode or enter linux
text to perform the installation in text mode
- follow the anaconda directives

Note: The anaconda screens were a little garbaged on my workstation
(sporting an ATI FireGL X1 display adapter). In graphical mode, some
widgets were missing (like the Next and Back buttons; Alt+N is your
friend as you'll operate blindly). Sometimes you only have the Fedora
background image wondering what to do. Well, just hit Alt+N in this
case! This implies that you'll blindly accept the default choices.
Fortunately, the important steps (like disk partitioning, network
settings, and so on are roughly readable). In text mode, the problem is
similar, but at least you can choose which packages to install. I didn't
find the right key combination to perform the same in graphical mode.

When the installation is finished and the system reboots, disable
SELinux by passing linux selinux=0 as arguments to the ELILO prompt.
There's currently something wrong with mingetty that prevent you logging
in in enforcing mode. Edit /etc/selinux/config to switch SELinux in
permissive mode, touch /.autorelabel to fix the file contexts and reboot
normally. You'll get a few additional SELinux denials but that's all
(more in http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2006-
January/msg00049.html).

On my system, I'm getting some graphical glitches with the modular X.org
7.0 RC4 r300 driver. If you have a different graphics adapter, please
report how it works.

Happy testing!

	Émeric