Trying to install F9 alpha failed

[Will Woods]

On Feb 25, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Mike wrote:

> I downloaded the F9 alpha dvd iso and tried to install to a spare  
> partition
> on a laptop which already has an F8 installation on it.
>
> Anaconda started up and asked for the usual keyboard etc settings,  
> but as
> soon as I had defined the HD directory for the HD install anaconda  
> threw
> an exception and the install hung with anaconda  
> findExistingRootPartitions
> errors.  I could not save the traceback, nor copy out the stuff on the
> screen, so could not sensibly put in a bugzilla report.

HD installs are known-broken in F9a. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431132

This was listed on the F9Alpha testing status page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/9/AlphaTreeTesting

Should be fixed in rawhide, which should be installable again Real  
Soon Now.

> I also tried an install using the boot.iso and extracting the  
> vmlinuz and
> initrd.img to /boot and making a grub entry so that a URL install to  
> a mirror
> could be tried but this failed also - and did not even get to  
> downloading
> the second stage install file. The kickstart file was obtained from  
> one of the
> mirrors and modified.

How did it fail? What happened, at what point? Do the logs on the  
other virtual terminals (Alt-F3 etc.) have any useful info?

-w