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On 03/22/2013 04:25 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:54:04 -0400 Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> At Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:04:22 -0700 CentOS mailing list
>> <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 3/21/2013 3:42 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
>>>> Is it because some package from the second disk is needed? Do I have
>>>> to create a merged version of the DVDs? Or is something else wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I put a mirror of this, http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6/os/x86_64/
>>> on a local http server
>>>
>>> then I use the netinstall iso to boot the system or VM and have the
>>> kickstart file point to the http url to run the install. if you do a
>>> pxe boot of the netinstall image, even better.
>>
>> I created a local O/S repo by 'merging' the two DVD isos (copied DVD 1 to
>> directory mounted under /var/www and then copied the contents of the
>> Packages directory of the second DVD into the copy of the Packages
>> directory) and then used this local repo as the install source. Same
>> thing -- it hangs at selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch. CPU
>> busy for awhile, then virtually zero CPU usage. Is it a memory problem?
>> I've only allocated 1gig of RAM to this VM -- is that too little? Is
>> there something 'special' about
>> selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch?
>
> OK, I managed to install the VM. I did a 'Minumal-Desktop' install and
> then installed the 300+ additional packages after the 'Minumal-Desktop'
> completed and the VM rebooted (I used the package list from the 32-bit
> 'Development-Workstation' install I did earlier). I still don't know why
> selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch caused the install to go off
> into never-never land... There was no problem doing a
> 'Development-Workstation' install of the 32-bit version. My *only* guess
> was the 1gig was not enough RAM for selinux-policy-targeted post-install
> script with large number of installed packages, but there were no error
> messages, so I really don't know what was going on.
>
>>
>> My next option is to just treat this like I did for the Ubuntu VMs: do a
>> *native* install on a scratch disk and then copy it over to the lvm
>> volume. This means I will have burn two DVDs... Argggg.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
It is quite possible that you rean out of memory.
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