[Sussex] Fedora 9 repository problem

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

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?
>
> Thanks, Brendan
>   
Hmm. I use a CD image to install from a local HTTP server, rather than 
working from DVD's. I find a lot of DVD drives do not successfully read 
each others' media.