My hardware is Sun V65x servers, (6GB RAM/2xXeon3GHZ/36GB SCSI disk).
I have NFS repositories of Centos 3.1, Centos 3.4, Centos 4 & RedHat 9.0
ISO distros set up. I use boot floppies for each o/s with the same
kickstart file which is of course altered to point at the desired
distro. With Centos 4 I have to use a boot CDROM, of course, rather than
floppy disk. I wish to set up servers with either Centos 3.4 or 4
versions rather than RH9. Root disk partition is 24GB btw.
The kickstart boot works fine with RH9 & Centos 3.1. However it fails
with Centos 3.4 & Centos 4 but in different ways:
Centos 3.4
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The kickstart proceeds normally, formats the partitions & starts the
install. However at 52% of the way through, it aborts, always on the
same file: "glibc-kernheaders-nnnn.rpm"
The fatal error message is non-specific & suggests that media is
defective or disk space inadequate. I have checked the md5 sums of the
ISOs & they agree with the download site ones. I have also extracted the
"glibc-kernheaders-nnnn.rpm" from the ISO image #1 & compared its' md5
sum with the same module from the /os/ directory on the download site &
they also agree. I have also downloaded the ISOs again & they are the
same md5s as the first set :-\
Centos4
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This install gets to the point at where it would normally try & mount up
the CENTOS4 NFS repository which is on the same server as all the other
distros (this runs RH9). It then goes into a loop whereby it keeps
prompting for the name of the NFS server & the CENTOS directory, where
it would normally just mount it & proceed with the installation.
Anyone out there with similar experience & a working fix for this issue
please ?
Les Oswald
