<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>What is the output of your f3 log window (control+alt+f3)?</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 5, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Neerad Niksun wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I am trying to build a kickstart CD ROM for RHEL 4.0 which is failing. I did make the RHEL 3.0 kickstart CDROM and it worked just fine.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">RHEL 3.0 works fine with certain set of rpms. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">RHEL 4.0 fails after the following series of activties are over succesfully.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">1) boot succesfuly from the custom CD</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">2) parse ks.cfg</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">3) x-server comes up alright</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">4) check package dependency. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">5) parse comps.xml correctly</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">6) starts installation - partitions the disck according to the partitions specified in the ks.cfg</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">7) then shows message "transferring install image to the disk" which gets past succesfully</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">8) starts x-server again comes up okay.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">And then the message says "install terminated abnormally" </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">No OTHER message to work on further.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I have tried following in ks.cfg</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">1) text install, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">2) selinux forced</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">3) selinux disabled</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">4) skipx</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">5) packages --ignoremissing</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Each time it breaks exactly at the same point.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"> I have even tried now with trimming down the comps.xml file by manually removing the groups and packages that were not required. (initially this gave problems with parsing and installation failed subsequently) but now the the parsing seems okay.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">This was probably because of the empty groups in comps.xml.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">CAN anybody help? I am seriously getting frustrated since , working on it for quite some time with different combinations of packages , ks.cfs commands etc.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Thanks </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Neeard</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Kickstart-list mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>