[Spacewalk-list] Problems Kickstarting CentOS 6.0 on Spacewalk 1.5

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Scott Rakow wrote:

> I have been trying to install a base CentOS 6.0 load, using Spacewalk 1.5
> (latest,as of Monday 10/3). I hit an installation error when package
> installs are taking place
>
> A fatal error occurred when installing the MAKEDEV package. This could
> indicate errors when reading the installation media. Installation can not
> continue.
>
> When I exit out of this, I have the progress box, which shows the rpm
> MAKEDEV-3.24-6.el6.x86_64 and is the 136 out of 364 packages. Below it is a
> line strangely scrolling off the screen, which reads
>
> /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm: No such file or directory
>                            /mnt/sys/image/var/lib/rpm: No such file or directory
>                                                        install exited abnormaly [1/1]
>                                                                      The system will be rebooted when you press Ctrl-C or Ctl-Alt-Delete.
>
> The iso's for CentOS 6.0 are on the disk and mounted through the loopback. I
> tried downloading the iso and burning it on a different burner, copying it
> into place and mounting it, and it sill get stuck at the same place. This is
> what the distribution is linked to in the tree path, with a base channel set
> to the CentOS main channel and Installer Generation set to Red Had
> Enterprise Linux 6.
>
> Looking in the catalina.out file shows some Not Found .. 404! errors for the
> following files:
>
> //var/distro-trees/centos-6.0-x86_64_1/images/updates.img
> //var/distro-trees/centos-6.0-x86_64_1/images/product.img
> /var/cache/rhn/repodata/.treeinfo
>
> The profile is just a very basic profile to test the install with.
>
> Any help/suggestions

You've included the updates repo I'm assuming.  There's a bug with CentOS 6.0
that means that doesn't work.

jh