EL5 kickstart configuration issue

[Roger Leonard]

Wow that was way too easy but it appears to be working so far.  All this
time I have been expanding and fooling around with the iso's.  you can
tell that Redhat is not my first language.  Thanks so much for the help.

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeroen van
Meeuwen
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:41 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: EL5 kickstart configuration issue

Roger Leonard wrote:
> I have been using nfs kickstart for years with no issues by mounting
iso 
> 1 and copying the "Redhat" dir to my installation area specified in my

> ks.cfg and then mounting CD's 2-5 and copying the Redhat/RPMS dir to
the 
> installation RPMS dir.  This worked up until ES5 where it looks like
the 
> installation paths changed from Redhat to Server and the rpms are 
> directly under the Server dir rather than being in a Redhat/RPMS dir.

> So I copied the entire contents of my cd #1 to the installation area
and 
> then mounted and copied just the Server dir to my installation area
and 
> anaconda appears to work ok but as soon as it trys to install the rpms

> it can't find xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.2.el5.x86_64.rpm or says its 
> corrupt.  That file is there and is the same md5sum as the iso so it 
> looks like there is some sort of path issue or something.  Permissions

> are fine.  Can anyone point me at the "proper"  way to set up a cdrom 
> based NFS kickstart installation tree with EL5?  Do I copy all the
CD's 
> over on top of each other in the installation area?  What am I missing
here?
> 
>  

Actually you can just copy the ISO files into the NFS shared directory, 
it doesn't necessarily need to be an exploded tree.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

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