Kickstart failing for RHEL 3.0 Update3

Stephen Mah steve.mah at oracle.com
Fri Nov 19 07:58:29 UTC 2004


I found this thread:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2003-December/msg00222.html
Looks like the RHupdate directory was used for internal developement 
work at RH.

Is there anything out of the ordinary in your kickstart file that might 
be causing this to bomb?

>>>>Andy Kar wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>>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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