Made up the two cd package, rh_71_disc1 rh_71_disc2 rh_71_updates rh_71_munged rh_71_store took a rpm -q list from the installed machine. ran the list against both disc1 &2 moving all unused rpms out to rh_71_store updated the rh_71_munged with the remainder from both cd's cp the updates into munged for rpms that required it (not the kernel) (tested dependencies) moved RedHat/base/hdlist1 &2 to hdlist1 &2_back ran /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers /munged checked hdlists and they are re-created and started the KickStart from a floppy off off of nfs against munged, this works with original, and got Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run rc = apply (step[1](), args) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 551, in __call__ if todo.doInstall (): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1698, in doInstall self.getCompsList() File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 769, in getCompsList self.comps = self.method.readComps(self.hdList) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 17, in readComps return ComponentSet(self.tree + '/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 542, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 482, in readCompsFile self.expressions[packages[l]] = expression File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 116, in __getitem__ return self.packages[item] KeyError: kon2 Local variables in innermost frame: self: <comps.HeaderListFromFile instance at 827e0b0> item: kon2 Made no changes to comps. any ideas, yours a.r.b