Kickstart failing for RHEL 3.0 Update3

Andy Kar andy.kar at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 03:10:13 UTC 2004


I'm using AS. All the files seems to be there. I installed the product
from the CD (burned iso) and did a md5sum comparison of all the files
in the directory and cd. They match, so I don't think it's file
corruption.

Andy

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:00:28 -0800, Stephen Mah <steve.mah at oracle.com> wrote:
> I don't have the RHupdates folder. Is there a possibility of a corrupted
> installer file?
> Are you running ws3 or as3? not sure if the files are the same, they
> might be.
> 
> Here's a checksum of my exploded update3 tree:
> md5sum $PWD/*
> 2a0dafe938a525d75e64de95d7370c93
> /vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/comps.rpm
> b740b42593f133e606e7040e875ab02e
> /vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/comps.xml
> 3ea32a7a67f25a1c34a8cd97abdf4412
> /vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/hdlist
> f92bf7cf90694bb11dae1459b925d15e
> /vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/hdlist2
> a2897d237e1f2a64dbb9ac3f488b8302
> /vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/hdstg2.img
> 3a64f2efbc3caf8dd52ba2ea3fa33412
> /vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/netstg2.img
> ee20ec1a91c18097233a6084fac952d8
> /vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/product.img
> da8e91b5e8738ccb86aeb6202f0594bd
> /vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/stage2.img
> 10f865ad205d82dbbda04fee685f75d2
> /vault/redhat-ws3-update3/RedHat/base/TRANS.TBL
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Andy Kar wrote:
> 
> >Hi Steve,
> >
> >Thanks for the reply.
> >
> >Correc. I've the up3 kernel. I combed through the archive and saw this
> >post. I'm not sure where to get the files though!
> >
> >https://listman.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2002-February/msg00083.html
> >
> >Thanks
> >Andy
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:23:26 -0800, Stephen Mah <steve.mah at oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The boot cd contains the boot kernel from update 3 correct? I've never
> >>seen this error personally.
> >>
> >>-steve
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Andy Kar wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>We use the kickstart mechanism for installing RHEL on new machines and
> >>>so far it was working great till RHEL 3.0 Update 3. When I tried to
> >>>kickstart it I got the
> >>>following error:
> >>>
> >>>Running anaconda, RHEL installer exec of anaconda failed:
> >>>No such file or directory install exited abnormally sending
> >>>termination signals...done
> >>>......................
> >>>You may safely reboot your system...
> >>>
> >>>I looked in the alternate screen and see that anaconda is looking for
> >>>a RHupdates directory.  This directory is not in any of the iso
> >>>images. Do I need this, if so from where ?
> >>>
> >>>I'm using the NFS install method against a blown up directory. I
> >>>created the directories by copying the contents of the ISO files. The
> >>>kickstart CD contains the files from isolinux directory.
> >>>
> >>>Any help with this is very much appreciated.
> >>>
> >>>Many thanks
> >>>Andy
> >>>
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