Fedora from Mike Barnes

[Ronald Reed]

I am trying this, but I have hit a snag. When I cleaned /, I lost the
rpm database. Do you remember what the first packages were that you
installed and the command line in the rescue mode to do the install?

Ron

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 17:25, Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc wrote:
>   Hello everyone!
> 
>   I am happy to inform you that I've got Mike's Fedora installed and running on my Miata as of last Sunday. The
> installation process was hectic and cumbersome, since the only bootable media I had was RH7.2
>   Here's the overall process that took me 6 hours (in case anyone is interested):
> 
> 1. Booted and installed base RH7.2 system. This was optional as I didn't want to have a complexity over the packages
> place. But I did manage to pull all the packaged (2.8G) onto a single partition.
> 
> 2. Booted RH7.2 CD into resque mode. mkfs.ext3 on future / and /usr/local (optional) partitions (since I already had
> those from the step 1, but didn't want to update RH7.2 packages). Then mounted them under /mnt/root,
> /mnt/root/usr/local and /mnt/root/data (later still has packages).
> 
> 3. Install packages with rpm -Uh --root=/mnt/root  This step was most time consuming as I didn't want to install
> everything and at the same time wanted to follow dependencies. I still had to overcome some cyclical dependencies, but
> there weren't many of them. Unfortunately I didn't write down the order, but I guess it's part of anaconda's config.
> 
> 4. After about 500 pkgs installed, I figure it's time to try the installation. However I still needed to manually
> master some config files (/etc/hosts, /etc/aboot.conf, /etc/fstab, /etc/sysconfig/network etc). One more thing that got
> me on reboot is initrd.img was missing SCSI driver for my system. Had to do mkinitrd to fix it.
> 
> 5. Booted the system up and enjoyed nice KDE interface. KStars doesn't crash anymore :)
> 
>   Special thanks to Mike and Balint for making all these packages!
> 
> 
>                                       Arc C.
>                                       achapkis at dls.net
> 
> 
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