This appears to be something that Mageia picked up from Mandriva. It appears to me that if you use boot.iso to install when the installer asks for your ID and password if you enter anything in there it won't connect. If you enter nothing, anonymous, it will work fine. This is an error that appears to be carried over from Mandriva. The Mandriva boot.iso was corrected I believe after the Mageia fork. I was part of that process.
Hi, thanks for reporting this bug. Do you have a link to the fix/patch ?
Source RPM: boot.iso => drakx-installer-images
OK, here's the original Mandriva Bug where all this was discussed: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=49898 You can see it took awhile before we were able to correctly define what was going on. The last boot.iso I used on Mandriva did in fact work and I think that was right around the time that Mageia forked away. IMO, the issue now may, or may not, be the same. More testing on my end going on to better define. I am in control of the FTP server as it is on my LAN and it uses ProFTP. It's a Mandriva 2010.2 system. I'd rather have the FTP server be normal ( ID + PW ) rather then anonymous.
Ok thanks >Olivier Blin 2009-10-27 13:37:27 CET >Fixed in latest installer (12.72), uploaded in cooker Mageia was forked in 10/2010 so it's seems it's broken again with the last change in our side (P.S why don't you use plain line ?)
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(In reply to comment #3) > Mageia was forked in 10/2010 so it's seems it's broken again with the last > change in our side > > (P.S why don't you use plain line ?) This is a test of the boot.iso. During the testing period I actually prefer to use the Alpha/Beta isos to start with. Ultimately when released I'd prefer to switch to the boot.iso and my local repo to keep the initial updates to a minimum. I use mirrors.kernel.org for my repo resync source.
So that you know exactly what I am doing The FTP server ( Mandriva 2010.2 ) is located at IP: 192.168.1.2 The directory that the Mageia repo is at is: /home/mandy/mageia/2/i586/media/core..... The FTP server is running ProFTPD and is running just fine. Here is the process I use to run boot.iso Boot boot.iso from CD 1) Install method: FTP Server 2) Network Connection: DHCP 3) Host Name ( Blank ) Domain Name ( Blank ) 4) Network comes up 5) HTTP proxy host: ( blank ) HTTP proxy port: ( blank ) 6) Specify a media manually 7) FTP server: 192.168.1.2 Mageia Directory: /mageia/2/i586 Login: mandy Password: xxxxx 8) Error Error: file not found this process I have used many times successfully in the past with Mandriva. Then it got broke then fixed again. Now broke, or I'm not doing something right, in Mageia. I've changed the Mageia Directory location to like /mageia/2/i586/media /home/mandy/mageia/2/i586/media none seem to work. If I select an anonymous ftp point like mirrors.kernel.org that works fine.
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
Can you attach stage1.log (/tmp/stage1.log or /root/drakx/stage1.log if you then complete the install with another server) in such a case? Also could you point at the latest mdv release which worked for you (for bisecting)?
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Works for me BTW...
(In reply to comment #7) > Works for me BTW... Point me to an on line ftp server that you use.
Just a local one I set up for testing...
BTW do you know such a public server?
(In reply to comment #10) > BTW do you know such a public server? I use mirrors.kernel.org both as a source for an boot.iso ( anonymous ) and ftp. I get some really fast speeds from that. Also it is my source for my local repo rsync. I'm not say'n I'm not doing something wrong here. Look at my process in comment #5. This has worked many times in the past with Mandriva but things may have changed. The local ftp server is a Mandriva 2010.2 ProFTP. Should be the same with Mageia.
@ William Please attach one of the files Thierry asked for in comment 6
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(In reply to comment #12) > Please attach one of the files Thierry asked for in comment 6 I'm waiting for Beta 1, hopefully so I can get a clean install on something. Right now, even using boot.iso, I cannot get a complete install of M2A3. Mostly due to: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4124 Mageia 2 Alpha 3 32-bit i586 hangs on install See my Comment 11. Even using an anonomous ftp server with boot.iso I cannot get a clean install.
This is absurd. If you can get to the point installing packages hang, then you've set up the packages sources for quite some time. So you definitively can start the installer with an auth ftp, and then copy log files on USB, floppy, network or whatever.
(In reply to comment #14) > If you can get to the point installing packages hang, then you've set up the > packages sources for quite some time. The getting to the point where install hangs is using the M2A3 32-bit DVD install. This bug has to do with attempting to install using boot.iso and attempting to use an ftp source that requires a user name and password to gain access to the repo on that ftp server. If I use say ftp://mirrors.kernel.org that's an anonymous server not needing and user and PW. Installation launches and runs at least for awhile installing packages. I've come from a corporate environment where they required a secured FTP point needing a User name and Password to get to the local repo. If you attempt to use boot.iso under that situation you'll not even be able to get into the user and repo in that users space. Nothing gets written to the disk. Not even partitioning. Most people will use anonymous servers with boot.iso. I've a little wrinkle here right now. Up to last week my Cauldron repo was on a Mandriva 2010.2 server. That got pulled down and replaced with a Mageia 1 server ( works great ). I've built a local Mageia 1 32-bit repo on it and that works fine. I plan on putting up a Cauldron repo ( ftp User/PW ) in the next week and I can get back into testing this, certainly by the time we get to Beta 1. This bug imo is tagged correctly at "normal". In fact Mandriva released a number of versions with this bug still open.
Ok hold the phone on this for a couple weeks. As I mentioned in Comment 15 I've just replaced my Mandriva 2010.2 ftp server with a Mageia 1 server. The first repo I built on this is Mageia 1 32-bit. So I now have a local repo, that requires an ID & PW. Using the Mageia 1 32-bit boot.iso ( 39.0 MB, 30 May 2011 ). That works just fine. I'm getting a good install on a Vbox test install. I'll build a local repo for Cauldron, 32-bit, next week and try the boot.iso against that local ftp on a Mageia 1 server. Thanks for your help on this.
I'm going to change the status of this bug to "RESOLVED" for now. I changed my repo source FTP server from Mandriva 2010.2 to Mageia 1 32-bit. The latest M2 32-bit boot.iso, as of 9 Feb 2012, does in fact handle this FTP server that needs an ID & PW. I don't think it's worth our time to figure out why the Mandriva FTP server does not work, at least as of this time. Thanks for all the help on this one. I'll keep using it and if anything changes I'll reopen this bug.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED