On 2011/02/03 23:08 (GMT+0100) Christoph Frieben composed: > John Reiser wrote: >> Thinking it might be easier to install a new system, I first tried the latest nightly, desktop-x86_64-20110130.16.iso, .. > Recent install media can be found at: > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15-Alpha.TC1/Fedora/x86_64/iso/ > in particular a working netinst.iso. I tried to net (minimal) install 40 hours ago and got no initrd and thus no boot. Culprit was less not installed. I made a working initrd via chroot and yum install less. Still when done, ethX cannot be found, so I have no network except via chroot, and even then after installing X and KDE, yum gives errors about installed packages not actually being installed. >> then disable firstboot by editing /etc/rc.d/init.d/firstboot and inserting "exit 0". > A more standard procedure in this case is > $ chkconfig firstboot off -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel