Fedora Core 4 Kickstart - Problem with packages over NFS

Cecilio Marín cmarin at essiprojects.com
Mon Oct 17 07:37:04 UTC 2005


Can you attach ks file?

Richard Hobbs escribió:

>Hello,
>
>If i perform a Fedora Core 4 install by booting from CD1, and then selecting
>NFS as the install method everything works fine.
>
>If i then take the generated anaconda-ks.cfg file and use it to install
>again, it fails at the Packages stage, stating that none of the packages can
>be found.
>
>If i comment out the packages section of the ks.cfg file, to prompt it to
>ask me for the packages, all packages are greyed out and unavailable, and
>all i can install is the "Minimal" setup, which is no good to man nor beast!
>
>Every other aspect of ks.cfg works perfectly, but when i boot using the ks
>floppy disk i have created, no packages are available when using NFS as the
>install method.
>
>If i try to use HTTP as the boot method (using "url --url
>http://192.168.1.2/ks/fc4-install") it doesn't give any errors, but
>continues to install from CD anyway.
>
>Does anyone know why this could be happening?
>
>The settings in the ks.cfg file are correct, and when i type them in
>manually during a manual install, i can access all the packages without a
>problem.
>
>Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
>
>Richard.
>
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