How to become fedora tester?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Jan 23, 2008 2:02 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 2:00 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 23, 2008 1:34 PM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > > Hi, I some great features in rawhide and would like to check them out.
> > > > I tried this and it fails to give gui after that, I see that X starts
> > > > but I don't see gdm or gnome even trying to start...
> > > >
> > > > How I tried to become rawhide tester? Here is how:
> > > > Installed clean F8 Live CD on ext3 8GB partition with separate /home
> > > > (shared with other distros I have)
> > > > updated F8 with latest patches and rebooted (300MB of updates!)
> > > > forced yum to use development updates with "yum updates
> > > > --enablerepo=development"
> > > > and after 600MB of updates I restarted with no gui
> > > > I deleted xorg.xonf and tried another go and nothing happened.
> > > >
> > > > Is there another way to become a rawhide tester?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Valent.
> > >
> > > Its highly advisable not to share your /home with rawhide, since app settings
> > > and such saved in there can really wreak havoc, and keeping in mind many of the
> > > rawhide packages get built right out of bleeding code changes... its not
> > > guaranteed not to delete it all.  Unless thats backed up often its just not
> > > worth losing your shared configs/setup/data...
> > >
> > > If you can, its best to just give it its own partitions home and all, in an lvm
> > > if you want, but separate anyway.
> > >
> > > One method for installing is to get the boot.iso from the development mirror and
> > > burn it and use that to do an install.  You can then do network install from the
> > > mirror (find the url to the closest mirror for you, ftp or http).  You need the
> > > path to the directory os, or rather where you find the /Packages directory.
> > >
> >
> > Could I bother somebody with a bit more specific instuctions.
> > I wen't to this link:
> > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/
> > and the link to rawhide mirrors is broken :(
> > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/development/
> > The requested URL /mirrorlists/publiclist//Fedora/development/ was not
> > found on this server.
>
> I found this:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/
>

I downloaded and burned boot.iso from
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/images
folder and started to install rawhide and that also failed :(
Am I jinxed? :)

I statred network install and used
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/
as url to install from.
Installation started ok but stopped at 460 package of 906.

I get an error message:
kudzu-1.2.82-1-i386.rpm cannot be opened :( This is due to a missing
file or corrupt file.

And I have retry or reboot, and retry just shows the same message over
and over again...

uf :(

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