I think what you need is to (re)run the genhlist--pkgorder--genhlist over your batch of RPMS. I had that same problem before while creating my installation/kickstart CD. --- Neerad Niksun <neeradm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to build a kickstart CD ROM for RHEL 4.0 which is failing. I did > make the RHEL 3.0 kickstart CDROM and it worked just fine. > > RHEL 3.0 works fine with certain set of rpms. > > RHEL 4.0 fails after the following series of activties are over succesfully. > > 1) boot succesfuly from the custom CD > 2) parse ks.cfg > 3) x-server comes up alright > 4) check package dependency. > 5) parse comps.xml correctly > 6) starts installation - partitions the disck according to the partitions > specified in the ks.cfg > 7) then shows message "transferring install image to the disk" which gets > past succesfully > 8) starts x-server again comes up okay. > > And then the message says "install terminated abnormally" > > No OTHER message to work on further. > > I have tried following in ks.cfg > > 1) text install, > 2) selinux forced > 3) selinux disabled > 4) skipx > 5) packages --ignoremissing > > Each time it breaks exactly at the same point. > > I have even tried now with trimming down the comps.xml file by manually > removing the groups and packages that were not required. (initially this gave > problems with parsing and installation failed subsequently) but now the the > parsing seems okay. > This was probably because of the empty groups in comps.xml. > > CAN anybody help? I am seriously getting frustrated since , working on it for > quite some time with different combinations of packages , ks.cfs commands > etc. > > Thanks > > Neeard > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com