Webserver - Redhat/base images not found

[Prasanna Ponnada]

We setup a web server that serves RedHat Advanced Servers 3.0 and 4.0 
for i386 and x86_64.
Basically, we copied the contents of CD's to their respective CDs.
Eg: redhat advanced server 3 on x86_64 to <dir>/redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/

As part of install process, we create kickstart on the fly and the 
client downloads the required files like vmlinuz, initrd product.img, 
updates.img and netstg2.img etc from the webserver.
Of late, we have been running into a weird problem wherein the path to 
the above, at time refers to disk1 and at other times refers to the 
right path in the webserver. Also,
although the file exists in a given directory, the server returns a HTTP 
404 file not found error. I checked directory permissions on the 
directory, and they appear to be ok.

Please find an extract from our webserver log below:

2005/12/09 06:23:13 10.149.17.213 200 26261 /redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/ks.cfg 
HTTP/1.1
2005/12/09 06:23:14 10.149.17.213 200 158 
/redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/isolinux/vmlinuz HTTP/1.1
2005/12/09 06:23:20 10.149.17.213 200 158 
/redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/isolinux/initrd.img HTTP/1.1
2005/12/09 06:25:16 10.149.17.213 404 78 
/redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/RedHat/base/updates.img HTTP/1.1
2005/12/09 06:25:17 10.149.17.213 404 78 
/redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/disc1/RedHat/base/updates.img HTTP/1.1
2005/12/09 06:25:18 10.149.17.213 200 158 
/redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/RedHat/base/product.img HTTP/1.1
2005/12/09 06:25:27 10.149.17.213 404 78 
/redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/disc1/RedHat/base/product.img HTTP/1.1
2005/12/09 06:25:28 10.149.17.213 200 159 
/redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/RedHat/base/netstg2.img HTTP/1.1
2005/12/09 06:26:36 10.149.17.213 404 78 
/redhat/AS3.0/x86_64/disc1/RedHat/base/netstg2.img HTTP/1.1



The other interesting thing is that although I see a HTTP 404 for files 
like updates.img, the installer does not complain about it and proceeds.
However, when it fails to find netstg2.img, it pops up a window on the 
screen complaining that netstg2.img cannot be found in a given directory 
although the file exists there.

Do I need to run genhdlist or pkgorder once I copy the contents of the 
CD into the webserver's directory?
I thought genhdlist talks only about rpms and not about updates or netstg2.
Did anyone run into issues like the above? Any pointers would be greatly 
appreciated.

thanks
Prasanna



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