I think you might have the wrong list... Sent from a device with a very small keyboard and hyperactive autocorrect.
On Aug 11, 2017 2:56 AM, "fedora" <fed...@ayni.com> wrote: > Dear listers > I never had such an unreliable installation as the one for fedora 26. I am > a long time user of fedora (at least since 2003). > > The HW here: > 1. Workstation with two disks, each having its own fedora installation. On > each fedora bare-metal installation there is a fedora installation under > VirtualBox. All four installations are of MBR type. > 2. Laptop with UEFI type installation. > There are 5 installations to be done. > > My fedora installation: > I am an Xfce4 user, so i don't use any of the worksation spins of fedora. > I install fedora in the following way: > > - write the Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-26-1.5.iso to an USB stick > - prepare a ks file on a local web for a minimal install > - boot from the USB stick with the ks file specified to the kernel > - run the installation > - dnf update > - dnf groupinstall "Xfce Desktop" > - dnf install sddm > - systemctl enable --force sddm > - reboot > - with the Xfce Desktop being activ install all needed packages and do the > final system setup > > My problems: > During the download process, the installation broke down at different > stages: > - while downloading packet metadata (i.e. at the very beginning) > - while downloading group metadata > - while downloading the packages (mainly past 50 %) > Anaconda then showed a window saing that it could not download such and > such package, and that the failure was fatal. The only choice left was Stop > Install. > While this window was shown I tried to get into terminal mode > (CTRL-ALT-F2) to find a reason for the breakdown, but I couldn't find any > log. > Once, the download process went through successfully but then the > installation hung when Installing Boot-Loader. This was on the Laptop with > UEFI. > > In about 30 to 35 retrials I finally could realize the 5 installations. > > When searching around for work-arounds I found a discussion (in a blog?) > of the above problem, that the installation of fedora 26 becomes unreliable > when using a kickstart file. But no work-around was offered. > > suomi > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
