[Sussex] Fedora 9 repository problem

[Steve Dobson]

Hi Brendan

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 16:52 +0100, Brendan BT Account wrote:
> I downloaded Fedora 9 (direct from Fedora), burnt a DVD and started the 
> installation. Unfortunatelly, I got a "Unable to read package metadata 
> from repository" error when I tried to configure/select what I want to 
> install. I looked on-line and found a suggestion that I could have a bad 
> ISO image so I downloaded from a mirror and tried again but still get 
> the same problem. Other suggestion are to "yum clean all" but obviously 
> I can't do that until I have an installed operating system. Would it be 
> best to install and then configure the system? Any other suggestions?

1). Did you check the MD5 sum posted on the website against the image
you downloaded?

2). Burn a slowly as possible, less change of errors in the burning
processes.

Sorry, but as I don't use Fedora I can't advise with regards to the yum
commands.

Steve

-- 
Steve Dobson

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the knowledge that one can communicate it.
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