[Sussex] Fedora 9 repository problem

[Brendan BT Account]

Thanks for your responses. By way of variation, I did an installation 
opting to configure the software later. This worked, but whilst, after 
rebooting, I could activate eth0 I could not connect to the Internet. I 
happened to be using a fixed IP address (via Mistral) so I switched to 
using DHCP over a BT link and this worked fine. I then restarted the 
installation from the DVD and again used DHCP - everything worked i.e. 
it found the repository and let me select the software. There appears to 
be something odd with this Mistral/fixed IP link which is surprising as 
I have a Fedora 8 system happily running and the Fedora 9 installation 
didn't object to the connection but reported a repository problem. 
Anyway I have now crossed that hurdle. Brendan


Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> 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.
>
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