Wow that was way too easy but it appears to be working so far. All this time I have been expanding and fooling around with the iso's. you can tell that Redhat is not my first language. Thanks so much for the help. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeroen van Meeuwen Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:41 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: EL5 kickstart configuration issue Roger Leonard wrote: > I have been using nfs kickstart for years with no issues by mounting iso > 1 and copying the "Redhat" dir to my installation area specified in my > ks.cfg and then mounting CD's 2-5 and copying the Redhat/RPMS dir to the > installation RPMS dir. This worked up until ES5 where it looks like the > installation paths changed from Redhat to Server and the rpms are > directly under the Server dir rather than being in a Redhat/RPMS dir. > So I copied the entire contents of my cd #1 to the installation area and > then mounted and copied just the Server dir to my installation area and > anaconda appears to work ok but as soon as it trys to install the rpms > it can't find xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.2.el5.x86_64.rpm or says its > corrupt. That file is there and is the same md5sum as the iso so it > looks like there is some sort of path issue or something. Permissions > are fine. Can anyone point me at the "proper" way to set up a cdrom > based NFS kickstart installation tree with EL5? Do I copy all the CD's > over on top of each other in the installation area? What am I missing here? > > Actually you can just copy the ISO files into the NFS shared directory, it doesn't necessarily need to be an exploded tree. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
