Kickstart Install Under Fedora Core 5 Fails

Jeff Yana jeff.yana at rttusa.com
Wed Jun 20 01:38:55 UTC 2007


Dear List-
 
I have a fully functional Kickstart infrastructure in place for FC6. To date, I have performed no fewer than 25 kickstart installs (using FC6). Due to serious application compatibility issues, I am forced to take these machines back to an earlier version of Fedora ( version 5). Currently, the client systems successfully boot (using PXEboot). Some point after copying down the kickstart file, at the point where it attempts to mount the stage2.img file, it fails. I have tried using ISOs in addition to the contents of the ISOs within the installation tree, but neither work. Just to be sure that there is nothing wrong with my setup, I tried to install using the older FC6 ISOs and with those the client installs succeed. I have verified that the installation tree is available over NFS, so I am sure the problem is not with NFS.
 
Below are the error messages I receive:
 
VT1
"The directory does not seem to contain a Fedora Core Installation Tree."
 
VT3
(Truncated and paraphrased, may contain errors)
(.snip.)
INFO:                going to do nfsGetSetup
INFO:                mounting nfs path 192.168.X.X:/some/nfs/path
WARNING:        unable to access /mnt/source/images/stage2.img
INFO:                mntloop loop7 on /tmp/loopimage as /mnt/source/FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso fd is 20
ERROR:            open file to loop mount /tmp/loopimage/images/stage2.img failed
INFO:                unmounting loopback /mnt/runtime loop0
ERROR:            LOOP_CLR_FD failed for /mnt/runtime loop0 (no such device or address)
(.snip.)
 
Does any one on this list have any suggestions?
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Jeff Yana
 
 
 
 
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