Sorry, I am trying to get this working with RHEL3. I will look into adding repositories to the kickstart file for RHEL5, that sounds really handy. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesse Keating Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:56 PM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Pre-patched kickstart tree On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:47:30 -0600 "Waller, Darrick J (US SSA)" <Darrick.Waller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As the subject states, I am trying to create an kickstart tree that > allows me to install a system with current packages, instead of older > packages from the downloaded ISO's that I have. I have novi installed, > and am able to merge the two RPMS directories that I have using hard > links, but when I try and kickstart a machine using this directory as > the install tree, I get the following error: > > > > "That directory does not seem to contain a Red Hat Enterprise Linux > installation tree." > > > > I've tried linking the 'RedHat/base' directory, thinking I needed the > stage2 stuff, but I still get the same error. Any advice on this, or > alternate methods of doing the same thing would be great. If this is RHEL5, why not just add a repository in your ks file that has all the updates in it? Far easier than trying to reconstruct the install tree. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (jkeating.livejournal.com) Fedora Project (fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list