Webserver - Redhat/base images not found

[Brian Long]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:17 +0530, Prasanna Ponnada wrote:

> 
> Please find an extract from our webserver log below:
> 
> 2005/12/09 06:23:13 10.149.17.213 200
> 26261 /redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/ks.cfg HTTP/1.1
> 2005/12/09 06:23:14 10.149.17.213 200
> 158 /redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/isolinux/vmlinuz HTTP/1.1
> 2005/12/09 06:23:20 10.149.17.213 200
> 158 /redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/isolinux/initrd.img HTTP/1.1
> 2005/12/09 06:25:16 10.149.17.213 404
> 78 /redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/RedHat/base/updates.img HTTP/1.1
> 2005/12/09 06:25:17 10.149.17.213 404
> 78 /redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/disc1/RedHat/base/updates.img HTTP/1.1
> 2005/12/09 06:25:18 10.149.17.213 200
> 158 /redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/RedHat/base/product.img HTTP/1.1
> 2005/12/09 06:25:27 10.149.17.213 404
> 78 /redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/disc1/RedHat/base/product.img HTTP/1.1
> 2005/12/09 06:25:28 10.149.17.213 200

This is just Anaconda searching for product.img which might contain
updates.  It's normal for it to not exist  :)

>  159 /redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/RedHat/base/netstg2.img HTTP/1.1
> 2005/12/09 06:26:36 10.149.17.213 404
> 78 /redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/disc1/RedHat/base/netstg2.img HTTP/1.1
> 
> 
> 
> The other interesting thing is that although I see a HTTP 404 for
> files like updates.img, the installer does not complain about it and
> proceeds.
> However, when it fails to find netstg2.img, it pops up a window on the
> screen complaining that netstg2.img cannot be found in a given
> directory although the file exists there.

netstg2.img is required by Anaconda, so that's why it pops up a window
asking about it.

> Do I need to run genhdlist or pkgorder once I copy the contents of the
> CD into the webserver's directory? 

Nope.  Can you "wget" the same path from an existing machine?

> I thought genhdlist talks only about rpms and not about updates or
> netstg2. 
> Did anyone run into issues like the above? Any pointers would be
> greatly appreciated.

I have not seen this in my experience with HTTP installs.

/Brian/

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