Recent yum updates to my omen.com server have resulted in an unstable system. At first the problem appeared to be related to the Tigervnc server. VNC sessions would fail quickly. I ended up force installing Tigervnc from the Heisenbug tree.
With VNC apparently settled down, I saw hard disk errors on various drives. The solution for that was to fall back to 3.16.0-0.rc4.git2.1.fc21.x86_64. Omen.com now seems stable.
Meanwhile Fedora 21 and rawhide installs on my test machines ceased to boot into a graphical desktop. I tried both Gnome and Xfce. I could get a text console but no desktop. The current F21 anaconda didn't get to a desktop screen either.
I then replaced the Nvidia FTX 460 on my spare test machine and F21 anaconda started working.
Since my "ultimate goal" is to get a (relatively) clean F21 on my server, I started experimenting using the Heisenbug netinst.iso with a specified repository of http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/21/x86_64/os
It would be most useful to be able to specify a copy of the repository on a local HD: /dev/sdd1/fc21/os - but in the meantime I will have to install over the net at a more leisurely pace.
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 22:56 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
Since my "ultimate goal" is to get a (relatively) clean F21 on my server, I started experimenting using the Heisenbug netinst.iso with a specified repository of http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/21/x86_64/os
It would be most useful to be able to specify a copy of the repository on a local HD: /dev/sdd1/fc21/os - but in the meantime I will have to install over the net at a more leisurely pace.
Do you not already mirror anything in Fedora at all locally? If not, you may think about setting up rsync or something to do that onto a local server/HD of some time, one that you can always have access to, via http, ftp, nfs, etc.. You can then set it up to check however many times a day/week/month you want so it's always up to do.
It does make installs/upgrades/etc..a lot faster and you don't need internet access while doing it.
On 07/24/2014 05:59 PM, Mike Chambers wrote:
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 22:56 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
Since my "ultimate goal" is to get a (relatively) clean F21 on my server, I started experimenting using the Heisenbug netinst.iso with a specified repository of http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/development/21/x86_64/os
It would be most useful to be able to specify a copy of the repository on a local HD: /dev/sdd1/fc21/os - but in the meantime I will have to install over the net at a more leisurely pace.
Do you not already mirror anything in Fedora at all locally? If not, you may think about setting up rsync or something to do that onto a local server/HD of some time, one that you can always have access to, via http, ftp, nfs, etc.. You can then set it up to check however many times a day/week/month you want so it's always up to do.
It does make installs/upgrades/etc..a lot faster and you don't need internet access while doing it.
This is what I do. The full tree for 19, 20, 21, and rawhide plus updates-testing is only using approx. 250GB. I don't grab the source or delta rpms, and I've excluded many of the games. Makes netinstalls a breeze.
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Mike Chambers