I went through the files in the yum.repos.d directory including fedora.repo,
fedora-updates.rep and fedora-updates-testing.repo, and swapped out the baseurl lines with
macro variables with an absolute repo's URL, ie:
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
baseurl=http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/releases/13/E...
That worked. I was able to install base OS and follow all the other steps. I am now
having a different issue with the tftp timing out on the diskless workstation, but that
may be related to the motherboard's built-in Ethernet port or a conflict with dnsmasq
and tftpd. Still working on that, but if taking the macro variables out of the baseurl
gives anyone a hint as to what this problem was, please let me know. I was not having any
problems with normal yum updates, just installing the OS into a different directory, so I
will probably switch the baseurl back. Thank you for any help.
On 02/06/2011 04:22 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote:
I was following the directions in Chapter 18. Setting Up A Remote
Diskless System
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https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administratio...
and got to 18.3
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https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administratio...
where it said Fedora could be installed to a directory that would be exported. I had
previously created a 2GB ext4 LVM volume and mounted it at /diskless/myhostname and then
attempted to execute the yum command:
[root@myserver yum.repos.d]# yum groupinstall Base --installroot=/diskless/myhostname
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
fedora/metalink
| 18 kB 00:00
Could not parse metalink
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&ar... error
was
No repomd file
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please
verify its path and try again
[root@myserver yum.repos.d]#
yum update works fine. I tried doing a "yum clean all". Did not fix it. What
step am I missing? Thank you.