Getting Rawhide

[Rahul Sundaram]

John Poelstra wrote:
> Will Woods said the following on 01/24/2008 09:02 AM Pacific Time:
>> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 07:05 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
>>> Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>>>> Could someone post an exact cookbook for installing rawhide
>>>> on an x86_64 machine?
>>>>
>>>> I tried diskboot with several URLs but it always failed not being able
>>>> to access one or more files.
>>>>
>>>> I tried loading FC8 and, setting the repository to development,
>>>> and then upgrading but this results in many conflicts with fc8
>>>> versions as well as missing dependencies.
>>>>
>>>> What is the correct procedure, exactly?
>>> Basically, three options at the moment:
>>> 1) network install from boot.iso
>>> 2) network install from rescue image
>>> 3) update from an F8 install
>>
>> One of the easier ways - if you have Fedora already running on the
>> machine - is to use SNAKE. This is the method I use for most of my
>> install testing. In the simplest case, it goes like this:
>>
>> 0. su -, yum install snake
>> 1. snake-install [rawhide tree url]
>> 2. reboot
>>
>> snake-install will pull down the kernel and initrd and modify the
>> bootloader. When you reboot, it will boot into stage 1 of the installer,
>> defaulting to dhcp networking, en_US language/keymap, then automatically
>> pull down the rest of the installer and anaconda should start.
>>
>> If the install fails.. I grab a Live image and reinstall F8.
>>
> 
> Or better yet, use virtualization and it takes a fraction of the time to 
> recover.
> 
> 1) create a known good install of F8 or F7
> 2) create a snapshot of it or clone it
> 3) attempt rawhide install
> 4) if the install fails revert to "known good snapshot"

It would be very useful, if you folks document these details at

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing

Thanks.

Rahul