On 2010/03/17 09:42 (GMT-0700) Jesse Keating composed:
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 11:53 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
I just did a minimal via http (mirrors.kernel.org). First thing on first login I did 'mc'. -bash: mc: command not found, followed by 'yum install mc', resulting in 'Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again.' Also, '-bash: man: command not found'. This minimal is really too minimal.
I see in /etc/yum no *.repo files. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546273 suggests no solution. Where are *.repo supposed to be? Why after over a month since that bug was filed doesn't yum just work on a fresh install? How can I fix this without an install do-over not minimal?
Hrm, you have no repo files? repo files come from fedora-release and fedora-release-rawhide. Do you have those packages installed? You should.
# rpm -qa | grep edora fedora-release-13-0.6.noarch fedora-logos-12.0.3-2.fc13.noarch
Also your network may not come up until you do a dhclient or whatever is necessary for your network device to be brought up, which may be why you couldn't get repo data.
My installation boot stanza: title Install Fedora 13 (hd0,10) kernel (hd0,6)/f13inst/vmlinuz vga=0x305 asknetwork blacklist=sata_sil dns=207.6... gateway=192.1... graphical ip=192.1... netmask=255.255.255.0 noipv6 nousb selinux=0 resolution=1024x768 xdriver=intel initrd (hd0,6)/f13inst/initrd.img
From this I expected an initial fixed IP configuration ready to work, but
ipconfig shows otherwise. :-( ifup eth0 gets it up, but using DHCP.
You also didn't specify whether you did a minimal install of rawhide, or branched, as they will get different repos.
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/13/i386/os/
After manual ifup and installing fedora-release-rawhide yum is working. I forgot to try yum only after ifup but before manual fedora-release-rawhide installation.
Thanks! :-)