I went through the files in the yum.repos.d directory including fedora.repo, fedora-updates.rep and fedora-updates-testing.repo, and swapped out the baseurl lines with macro variables with an absolute repo's URL, ie:
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ baseurl=http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/releases/13/Everything/x86_64/os/ That worked. I was able to install base OS and follow all the other steps. I am now having a different issue with the tftp timing out on the diskless workstation, but that may be related to the motherboard's built-in Ethernet port or a conflict with dnsmasq and tftpd. Still working on that, but if taking the macro variables out of the baseurl gives anyone a hint as to what this problem was, please let me know. I was not having any problems with normal yum updates, just installing the OS into a different directory, so I will probably switch the baseurl back. Thank you for any help. On 02/06/2011 04:22 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote:
I was following the directions in Chapter 18. Setting Up A Remote Diskless System <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/nfs-diskless-systems.html> and got to 18.3 <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/diskless-nfs-config.html> where it said Fedora could be installed to a directory that would be exported. I had previously created a 2GB ext4 LVM volume and mounted it at /diskless/myhostname and then attempted to execute the yum command: [root@myserver yum.repos.d]# yum groupinstall Base --installroot=/diskless/myhostname Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit fedora/metalink | 18 kB 00:00 Could not parse metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=x86_64 error was No repomd file Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again [root@myserver yum.repos.d]# yum update works fine. I tried doing a "yum clean all". Did not fix it. What step am I missing? Thank you.
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