First time installer! Using SSH on linux server...

cp299 · #1 3rd July 2007, 12:45 AM

Be gentle - i'm a Fedora virgin. In fact I'm pretty new to Linux but I'm a very quick learner so don't be afraid to get a bit technical (not just yet though please!)

I want to install Fedora 7 on a linux box currently running Fedora core 6. I have full access to the server. I also have remote access in the way of video output. The main reason I want to install Fedora 7 is so I can make use of the GUI which (as the provider of the server has told me) is not available in Fedora Core 6.

I can download (or wget) the .iso files, but then getting them to run on my server during boot up in order to kick-start the install is what I'm finding difficult. I can mount the image but then don't know what to do with it, so I just browse around it for a bit racking my brains. It seems as though the website only tells you how to install if you actually have access to a physical cd/DVD drive.

Please can anyone tell me what I need to do? I'm hoping once I can get it to boot I'll be able to use the GUI for the most part in future.

Cheers guys
Chris.

brunson · #2 3rd July 2007, 03:16 AM

You could upgrade via yum.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

I've done it a dozen times.

marcrblevins · #3 3rd July 2007, 04:13 AM

Brunson, did you try FC6 to F7 upgrade sucessfully? I didn't upgrade sucessfully. Had to fresh install after getting a DVDWriter. Fedora sans 5 CD sets.
It upgraded and when rebooted, went to hell. Tried rescue disk trying to rename hdx to sdx, etc.

brunson · #4 3rd July 2007, 05:05 AM

Yes, on six different machines, including this one I'm typing on, three production hosting servers and and two laptops.

marcrblevins · #5 3rd July 2007, 05:08 AM

Beats me Brunson. Thanks for sharing.

cp299 · #6 3rd July 2007, 09:46 AM

Thank you Brunson,

I have just tried to install via yum, got to step 4 of that guide but then got this error message:

Setting up Upgrade Process
Setting up repositories
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
http://213.171.201.6/Fedora/matrix-u...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:42:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora)
Content-Length: 327
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: matrix-updates

Can you help?

brunson · #7 3rd July 2007, 10:38 AM

That mirror doesn't seem to have Fedora 7 in it, just up to 6. I've never heard of "matrix-updates" is it a 3rd party repo you have enabled on that box?

Edit: Here's the list of repos from the URL in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo

Code:

# repo = fedora-7 arch = i386 country = US  country = US
http://kdeforge.unl.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirrors.tiatera.com/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
ftp://fedora.bu.edu/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirror.steadfast.net/fedora/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
ftp://mirror.nyi.net/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirror.stanford.edu/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
ftp://ftp.applios.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/YUM/fedora/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://fedora.mirror.facebook.com/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
ftp://mirrors.imagi.net/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os
http://mirror.nuvio.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os

Nothing with an IP address and nothing about matrix.

Check that you don't have a left over /etc/yum.conf or old repo definitions in /etc/yum.repos.d. Especially look for any files ending in .rpmnew, which indicated rpm chose not to overwrite a file that was locally modified.

cp299 · #8 3rd July 2007, 01:17 PM

How do you make sure the new repo files aren't being placed as .rpmnew when it does this by default?

brunson · #9 3rd July 2007, 03:37 PM

You're question doesn't make sense to me. If you're asking what I think you are, then the answer is "you look for them in the directory where the original file is".

When a file exists in an rpm, but also exists on the local machine and has been modified, the package maintainer makes the decision whether to rename the existing file to filename.rpmsave and put the new file in its place, or to leave the file in place and put the new file alongside it named filename.rpmnew.

No repo file that I have has any reference to "matrix" in it. I believe you have a third party repository enabled. However, when looking at your repo definition files in /etc/yum*, look to see if you also have some rpmnew files that may be important to examine.