Kickstart on RHEL AS4

Ryan C. Spaulding rspaulding at mail.arc.nasa.gov
Fri May 5 14:51:52 UTC 2006


What is the output of your f3 log window (control+alt+f3)?


On May 5, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Neerad Niksun 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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