Installing Rawhide

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

søn, 02.10.2005 kl. 18.11 skrev G.Wolfe Woodbury:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:44:38AM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 13:34 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > > What is the currently recomended method of installing Rawhide? I have
> > > previously used the boot.iso image to boot the computer, and then
> > > install it from a local (another machine on the LAN) copy of the rawhide
> > > three, but i can't find the boot.iso image.
> > > 
> > > I know i can install fc4 and yum update, but i want to test anaconda +
> > > get an as "pure" as possible install.
> > 
> > It's in the images dir.  And I tried to install it yesterday, but it
> > kept erring out during it, and in different places.  Might want to give
> > it a few days. Also, the part I saw where you select the type of install
> > (desktop, workstation, etc..) was still in it's infant stages and has
> > work to do.
> > 
> > I'd say just do an FC4 install + rawhide updates immediately after and
> > that gets you as close as possible, which is what I did yesterday.
> 
> Actually, last night (this morning) I installed rawhide from the
> boot.iso and it worked as long as I didn't try to do anything special
> (like use http of customize my partitions.)   The current supported
> method is nfs-based trees (IIRC) so you need to nfs-export your rawhide
> tree so the test machine can see it.
> 
> The package select stuff is quite "primitive" and undergoing heavy
> modifications.
> 
> 

Okey-dokey. Just wait for the first unbroken rawhide three to come
along, and install it, then. Anyway, ill be doing a "as tiny as possible
while still getting gnome" install and then just yum in the rest so some
fringe breaking won't really hurt me... I hope...

Kyrre