On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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: >> > >> > 1. 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. >> >> > 2. 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 -- http://echorand.me -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
