On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 08:57 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:
On Mon, 7 May 2012 20:09:53 +0530 Amit Saha amitksaha@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hello all:
I built a boot.iso with 'lorax' using Fedora 17 release,version using the default templates:
$ sudo lorax --buildarch=i386 -p fedora -v 17 -r 17 -s http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/development/17/i386/os/ lorax_op
I faced a couple of issues:
- When i boot it using qemu/VirualBox, after selecting the install
option, the process stops with a white screen. Any reason for this?
Do you have any logs for the install? That doesn't ring any bells regarding bugs that we've seen thus far but I'm also not sure that we've done any spins with just F17 stable, either.
- When I boot it on bare metal after burning to a USB stick, the
installer goes to the storage device selection stage. I already have a Fedora 17 installation on disk, which the new installation isn't very happy with and complains that it cannot proceed with the installation. Is this expected?
It's likely that the packages on the boot.iso are older than your base system if you've been keeping it up to date with updates-testing. I'm not 100% clear on how upgrades work on the same base version but that could be part of the problem (assuming that F17->F17 'upgrades' are supposed to work and I'm not sure that they are).
No they're not. I'm not sure Amit isn't misreading the message. When you install to a system with F17 already installed you'll get a screen saying it can't upgrade, 'likely because your installed version of Fedora is too old'. This is a bit confusing, but the key point is this is just a warning that upgrade isn't possible, and you can happily proceed with a fresh install. If Amit is seeing a different screen, more details would be helpful.
Here is the screenshot of the screen [1]. I was hoping to work around it to do a fresh install by clicking on "Continue Install", but from what I remember now, the Installer crashed, and I attempted to save the logs, for which it attempted to connect to the Network, but which never succeeded. I shall attempt to try this again and retrieve more information.
[1] https://twitter.com/#!/echorand/status/199682569703407616/photo/1/large
Best, Amit