Installing FC5 with hard disk mode crashes with repomd.xmlerror 256

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Jun 7 18:15:16 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:23 +0300, Rizwan Mohamed Dawrey wrote:
> 
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> Stevens
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 8:35 PM
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> 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
> 
> 
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> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
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> 
> 
> 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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