Re: Problems with kickstart installation into a Virtualbox

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Hi John
thanks for the immediate information.

suomi

On 2011-08-25 11:51, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, anax wrote:
>
>> Hi listers
>> i tried to kickstart-install CentOS 6.0 64 in a Virtualbox (Virtualbox
>> Version 4.12). I used a local CDROM with the net-install ISO on it to
>> boot from. The ISO distribution file was provided on a server in the LAN
>> as was the kickstart file.
>> When starting the installation i aded the following to the kernel line
>> of the grub menu:
>> ks=http://install.mydomain.com/ks/centos.6.64.cfg
>>
>> After i had corrected some errors in the kickstart file, the
>> installation started as expected.
>> But it did not terminate as expected: after installing 198 of 671
>> packages, the installation halted with an error (i.e. after installing
>> the package libutempter).
>> In order to see what the problem was, i restarted from the CDROM in
>> recovery mode, and after going into the half-way installed system, i saw
>> in the anaconda log  that about three quarters of the post-installation
>> scripts of the packages had returned a warning. The warning code was
>> 255. But the post-installation script of the package libutempter had
>> returned an error with code 255, whereupon the installation  stopped.
>>
>> I thought, OK, we will work around the libutempter package by selecting
>> other program-groups in the kickstart-file. But i had no luck: the
>> installation stopped then after the package  MAKEDEV.
>
> This is a known bug of CentOS 6.0.  Redo the install without including the
> updates repo in your kickstart file, and you'll find it installs fine.
>
> jh
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