Kickstart on RHEL AS4

[Lambert Tran]

I think what you need is to (re)run the genhlist--pkgorder--genhlist
over your batch of RPMS. I had that same problem before while creating
my installation/kickstart CD.

--- Neerad Niksun <neeradm at in.niksun.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> RHEL 3.0 works fine with certain set of rpms. 
> 
> RHEL 4.0 fails after the following series of activties are over succesfully.
> 
> 1) boot succesfuly from the custom CD
> 2) parse ks.cfg
> 3) x-server comes up alright
> 4) check package dependency. 
> 5) parse comps.xml correctly
> 6) starts installation - partitions the disck according to the partitions
> specified in the ks.cfg
> 7) then shows message "transferring install image to the disk" which gets
> past succesfully
> 8) starts x-server again comes up okay.
> 
> And then the message says "install terminated abnormally" 
> 
> No OTHER message to work on further.
> 
> I have tried following in ks.cfg
> 
> 1) text install, 
> 2) selinux forced
> 3) selinux disabled
> 4) skipx
> 5) packages --ignoremissing
> 
> Each time it breaks exactly at the same point.
> 
>  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.
> This was probably because of the empty groups in comps.xml.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Neeard
> 
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