Kickstarting CentOS 6

[Connie Sieh]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Ronald McCarty wrote:

> I've got two questions concerning the installation of CentOS6:
>
> 1) Has anyone kickstarted CentOS 6 successfully?
> 2) What is the complete path for the url --url parameter?  Should it point
> to the "root" directory containing all the files and directories from the
> DVD media, or should it point to a subdirectory?  I've tried the various
> permutations with no luck.
>
> The error I am getting is "Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml).
> I'm running tcpdump and see the fetching of the kickstart.ks file (called
> centos6.ks in my case), so I have networking and security set up correctly.
> I've also got all the files owned by the web server user (apache) and they
> are readable when viewing via a web browser.
>
> Any insight is appreciated.
>
>

Maybe you should ask this on the centos mailing list.

-Connie Sieh