On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:

> Please test the following release.  It now includes a DVD iso image.  There 
> will be cd iso images tomorrow.
>
<snip>

I was just about to try the previous version but since this is now
available :-)

Having rsync'd over a copy and added the trivial entry to my pxe setup:

  label sl5rm
   kernel sl/5rolling/i386/vmlinuz
   append initrd=sl/5rolling/i386/initrd.img \
   method=nfs:instserv.damtp.cam.ac.uk:/inst/linux/sl/upstream/5rolling/i386/ ip=dhcp

I successfully started the installer.  In fact I got quite carried away 
and spent some time picking the exact disk layout and exactly which 
packages to install -- I'd planned to extract the list from the 
anaconda-ks.cfg it makes for later reference...

It went off did various things to check dependencies (that message came up 
twice), and created the new fs, then said it was doing something about 
transactions being prepared 'this may take several minutes' (the usual 
message I think), and then errored saying that the transaction had failed 
with error(s):  (nothing), and tells me to reboot.

At the shell on VC2 I couldn't see any obvious errors left in files nor 
any reason for the failure.  Didn't anaconda used to be a bit more chatty 
about errors -- it used to offer a python traceback which at least let one 
see which piece of code was crashing...

So I did it again and got the same results.  Trying a 3rd time but not 
altering the set of packages to be installed worked.

I then foolishly picked some packages to install with yum and it is busy 
downloading them all from your repo, which looks like it might take 
several hours (an excuse to go home).  I must remember to add a local repo 
entry before doing that in future.

btw /etc/yum.repos.d/sl.repo has an obvious typo in it:

   name=SL 4 base

I've not checked yet but can $releasever be used here as well as in the 
baseurl info?

I'll try some of this again tomorrow with slightly fresher eyes.

  -- Jon