problems installing on sata controllers

[Earl]

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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:05:37 -0400 Francisco André
<distro at getsmart.com.br> wrote:
>Hi all! I'm having some problems when I install fedora 7 using
>kickstart in a custom distro.
>
>1 - It never install if the machine use a sis contrller IDE or
>SATA. It seems that the partitions is created but whrn anaconda
> try to format the partitions all partitions is removed again
> and the installer only gives me a reboot option!

Sonds like more of a general hardware compatibility / installation
issue to me.  Try flipping BIOS values for the SATA stuff...  Look
for somehting like "compatibility" mode or similar.

>2 - I'm need to put some custom packages on the distro. I've
> edited the comps-f7.xml and add the custom packages, but when
> the install starts anaconda complains that all the custom
> packages that I add was not found on the cd. I'm sure that
> the packages is on the Fedora directory of the CD.

I've not even seen F7 yet but in FC6 land, sounds like 'creatrepo'
was skipped (total guess).

Earl
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