Hi, just wanted to provide an update. I hadn't synced the hdlist properly and was the reason for the wonkyness. The official release worked fine. --joey On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:31:07PM -0400, Joseph McDonald wrote: > Hi, > > I've created a linux kickstart boot floppy and an NFS share which > has the RHL 9.0 rpms. I've gone ahead and added all the updated > rpm's from updates.redhat.com to the archive and updated the hdlists. > > The I've added my network driver to the kernel modules and the > system get's an IP from the DHCP server and mounts the NFS drive > no problemo. > > It then works it's way through the ks.cfg file, formatting the disk > and partitioning it properly. I'm getting stuck when trying to install > the first RPM, glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm. Anaconda gives me an > error saying the media is most likely corrupt however if I alt+F2 to a > shell and try to install the rpm by hand, I get the following error: > > error: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - operation not permitted > error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm > warning: glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e > error: unpacking of archive failed on the file /usr/bin/catchsegv;3f8724a7: cpio: mkdir failed - Inappropriate ioc tl for device > > I'm not sure what's going on, I thought perhaps /var/ was read only, > but I'm able to create files in /var/lib/rpm/. The permissions for > /var/lib/rpm/Packages are 644.. so I have no idea what the problem > could be. Any ideas? Thanks! > > --joey > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
