Kickstart failing for RHEL 3.0 Update3

[Stephen Mah]

I don't have the RHupdates folder. Is there a possibility of a corrupted 
installer file?
Are you running ws3 or as3? not sure if the files are the same, they 
might be.

Here's a checksum of my exploded update3 tree:
md5sum $PWD/*
2a0dafe938a525d75e64de95d7370c93 
/vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/comps.rpm
b740b42593f133e606e7040e875ab02e 
/vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/comps.xml
3ea32a7a67f25a1c34a8cd97abdf4412 
/vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/hdlist
f92bf7cf90694bb11dae1459b925d15e 
/vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/hdlist2
a2897d237e1f2a64dbb9ac3f488b8302 
/vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/hdstg2.img
3a64f2efbc3caf8dd52ba2ea3fa33412 
/vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/netstg2.img
ee20ec1a91c18097233a6084fac952d8 
/vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/product.img
da8e91b5e8738ccb86aeb6202f0594bd 
/vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/stage2.img
10f865ad205d82dbbda04fee685f75d2 
/vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/TRANS.TBL


Andy Kar wrote:

>Hi Steve,
>
>Thanks for the reply.
>
>Correc. I've the up3 kernel. I combed through the archive and saw this
>post. I'm not sure where to get the files though!
>
>https://listman.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2002-February/msg00083.html
>
>Thanks
>Andy
>
>
>On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:23:26 -0800, Stephen Mah <steve.mah at oracle.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>The boot cd contains the boot kernel from update 3 correct? I've never
>>seen this error personally.
>>
>>-steve
>>
>>
>>
>>Andy Kar wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>We use the kickstart mechanism for installing RHEL on new machines and
>>>so far it was working great till RHEL 3.0 Update 3. When I tried to
>>>kickstart it I got the
>>>following error:
>>>
>>>Running anaconda, RHEL installer exec of anaconda failed:
>>>No such file or directory install exited abnormally sending
>>>termination signals...done
>>>......................
>>>You may safely reboot your system...
>>>
>>>I looked in the alternate screen and see that anaconda is looking for
>>>a RHupdates directory.  This directory is not in any of the iso
>>>images. Do I need this, if so from where ?
>>>
>>>I'm using the NFS install method against a blown up directory. I
>>>created the directories by copying the contents of the ISO files. The
>>>kickstart CD contains the files from isolinux directory.
>>>
>>>Any help with this is very much appreciated.
>>>
>>>Many thanks
>>>Andy
>>>
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