Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes withrepomd.xmlerror 256

[Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey]

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[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick
Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:15 PM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: RE: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes
withrepomd.xmlerror 256

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:23 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick
> Stevens
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 8:35 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with
> repomd.xmlerror 256
> 
> On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 10:10 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >             I am trying to install fedora with alternate install
> > method (hard drive installation) as 
> > 
> > described in the install guide with the iso images. Am able to boot 
> > 
> > into a text mode installation and it correctly takes the path of the
5
> > iso's  and 
> > 
> > all the screens for network and grub etc. are fine until I think
when
> > it tries to read 
> > 
> > package info and it crashes with the follo error -
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > --------------------
> > 
> > Unable to read package metadata
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Cannot open/read rcpomd.xml file for repository.
> > 
> > Failure : repodata/repomd.xml from anaconda: [Errno 256]
> > 
> > ------
> 
> >The ISO images must be named EXACTLY as they are on the download site
> >(including capitalization) and you must make certain they are
readable
> >by everyone.
> 
> >If you're installing FC5 for a 32-bit Intel machine, the ISOs MUST be
> >named:
> 
> >	FC-5-i386-disc1.iso
> >	FC-5-i386-disc2.iso
> >	FC-5-i386-disc3.iso
> >	FC-5-i386-disc4.iso
> >	FC-5-i386-disc5.iso
> 
> >Or, using the DVD ISO image:
> 
> >	FC-5-i386-DVD.iso
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
> -                                                                    -
> -                   To err is human, to moo bovine.                  -
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> The iso's are on a fat32 partition. And I am using loadlin to boot
into
> the
> linux installer. When I get the welcome to fedora screen, I do an alt
+
> f2
> to switch to the command shell and when I mount the partition holding
> the
> iso images, its exactly the same as you mentioned. I even checked the
> sha1 signatures to confirm proper downloading. Its still giving the
> same error.
> 
> Any more clues.... ?

>AFAIK, the partition should NOT be mounted.  You should simply be
>telling the installer which partition they're on and which directory
>they're in.

>Also note that the installer only groks ext2, ext3 and FAT partitions.
>I'm not 100% sure that includes FAT32 (one would hope, but I'm not
>sure).

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- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
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-        Brain:  The organ with which we think that we think.        -
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No, it 'groks' fat32 partition as specified in the official install 
guide. Also when anaconda asks to specify the path to the iso's it
takes it correctly when given the correct path, and to verify I had
typed an incorrect path to the iso's and it gives an error of not
finding the iso's.
Actually, I also searched bugzilla.redhat.com and this bug is already
reported and since the last 3 months having the status 'ASSI(gned)'
	
^^^^	
Well, I think it needs a hacker instinct to solve it.
Thanks for your input anyways.
Any more ideas will be appreciated.

Regards,
RMD