On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 14:21 -0700, Adam Williamson 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. Actually, sorry, I was a bit wrong there. That's what happens when you boot an _older_ installer than the installed system, not when they're equal. So I'm really not sure what message Amit saw exactly. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
