[Server-devel] F9 XS - Take it for a spin...

[Jerry Vonau]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> with some caveats... this is a developer preview, lots of things are
> b0rken, but still...
> 
>  - download all 759MB of iso here
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/other/Fedora-0.5.dev2-i386.iso
> 
>  - Burn it to a DVD (see notes below on using USB sticks)
> 
>  - Install it on a new machine - use the kickstart-driven default menu option
> 
>  - After install
>    1 - login as root
>    2 - cd /etc && make -f xs-config.make earlyset && reboot
> 
>  - If you have 2 NICs and F9 got them the wrong way around, just
> invoke xs-swapnics and reboot
> 
> Other installation notes...
> 
>  - Upgrades... for some reason, Anaconda isn't realising that it is
> supposed to be upgrading... working on that...
> 
>  - From a USB device! Ah, well, mildly annoying -
>    - grab mkusbinstall from here
> http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-livecd;a=tree;f=util;h=202b31c7ef280036e3edd99ef68871e3d0815295;hb=HEAD
>    - use it like you'd use livecd-iso-to-disk
>    - Anaconda will fail to kind the ks file - fix the path to be
> 'hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg' - assuming your USB disk is mounted as sdb1. It may
> require waiting a few seconds until sdb1 is mounted.
That is an anaconda re-compile time, think I can fix it.

>    - Anaconda will need to be told where the ISO is. Pick Hard Drive
> install, sdb1, and the path is 'iso'
> 
add to the kickstart file after interactive:
harddrive --partition=sdb1 --dir=iso

Jerry