From oliver at redhat.com Fri Feb 1 03:22:18 2013 From: oliver at redhat.com (Oliver Haessler) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:22:18 -0500 (EST) Subject: install RHEL 6 from a Live USB Stick In-Reply-To: <25559277.734.1359688600667.JavaMail.ohaessle@ohaessle.csb> Message-ID: <30493024.736.1359688931965.JavaMail.ohaessle@ohaessle.csb> Hi everyone, i try to set up the following (tried with RHEL 6.3 and 6.4 beta): I want to create a Live USB stick, that i can use as base to install a RHEL 6 via http. I already have the USB stick with the Live image running, and i use: su -c '/usr/sbin/anaconda --kickstart=http://' Everything looks good and starts, but at some point i get the error: * A fatal error occurred when installing the initscripts package. This could indicate errors when reading the installation media. Installation cannot continue. Install is done via network and the same KS file is used to on my PXE boot already and ack. to work. /tmp/anaconda.log is also not showing any error. Does anyone might have had the same issue already? Thanks and Cheers Oliver From rangsan.au at gmail.com Tue Feb 26 11:07:38 2013 From: rangsan.au at gmail.com (Rangsan A) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:07:38 +0700 Subject: symlink can't create on fat32 filesystem Message-ID: Hi, My goal is to create kickstart install from USB. I found that File system: FAT/FAT32 doesn't support symlinks but the DVD media has the symlink as below. So how can I solve the problem here. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 196 Jun 26 2012 media.repo *lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jun 26 2012 repodata -> Server/repodata* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 108 Jun 26 2012 supportinfo Maybe I could use other filesystem or re-create that repodata. Any idea , please share. Cheers, Rangsan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hhoffman at ip-solutions.net Tue Feb 26 17:41:06 2013 From: hhoffman at ip-solutions.net (Harry Hoffman) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:41:06 -0500 Subject: post script hanging system Message-ID: <512CF3B2.1010307@ip-solutions.net> Hi All, I'm kickstarting using cobbler off of a CentOS 6.3 box. I have a post install script to automagically change root's passwd to something random: echo "root:`cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 20 | head -1`" > /root/`hostname`.passwd && cat /root/`hostname`.passwd |chpasswd If I run this on the command line of a already installed system then the command executes as expected and returns me to my shell prompt When executed inside of the installer the system hangs. If I switch consoles to F2 I see the cat command as well as tr and fold all running. If i kill the cat command then the system finishes installing and reboots. I'm not sure why it's not working inside of the install environment but works in a installed environment. Any ideas? Cheers, Harry From clumens at redhat.com Wed Feb 27 16:31:05 2013 From: clumens at redhat.com (Chris Lumens) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:31:05 -0500 Subject: post script hanging system In-Reply-To: <512CF3B2.1010307@ip-solutions.net> References: <512CF3B2.1010307@ip-solutions.net> Message-ID: <20130227163105.GL26625@dhcp55.install.bos.redhat.com> > I have a post install script to automagically change root's passwd to > something random: > echo "root:`cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 20 | head > -1`" > /root/`hostname`.passwd && cat /root/`hostname`.passwd |chpasswd > > If I run this on the command line of a already installed system then the > command executes as expected and returns me to my shell prompt > > When executed inside of the installer the system hangs. If I switch > consoles to F2 I see the cat command as well as tr and fold all running. > If i kill the cat command then the system finishes installing and reboots. > > I'm not sure why it's not working inside of the install environment but > works in a installed environment. Perhaps you do not have enough entropy, so things are hung waiting for more to appear so it can spit out more random numbers? - Chris From hhoffman at ip-solutions.net Wed Feb 27 16:41:14 2013 From: hhoffman at ip-solutions.net (Harry Hoffman) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:41:14 -0500 Subject: post script hanging system In-Reply-To: <20130227163105.GL26625@dhcp55.install.bos.redhat.com> References: <512CF3B2.1010307@ip-solutions.net> <20130227163105.GL26625@dhcp55.install.bos.redhat.com> Message-ID: <512E372A.1040903@ip-solutions.net> I thought about that... any maybe that is the case. Any idea how to test that out inside of anaconda? Perhaps I could just try the same command from another console. Cheers, Harry On 02/27/2013 11:31 AM, Chris Lumens wrote: >> I have a post install script to automagically change root's passwd to >> something random: >> echo "root:`cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 20 | head >> -1`" > /root/`hostname`.passwd && cat /root/`hostname`.passwd |chpasswd >> >> If I run this on the command line of a already installed system then the >> command executes as expected and returns me to my shell prompt >> >> When executed inside of the installer the system hangs. If I switch >> consoles to F2 I see the cat command as well as tr and fold all running. >> If i kill the cat command then the system finishes installing and reboots. >> >> I'm not sure why it's not working inside of the install environment but >> works in a installed environment. > > Perhaps you do not have enough entropy, so things are hung waiting for > more to appear so it can spit out more random numbers? > > - Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >