Problems installing Fedora core 4 with kickstart
Dan Trainor
info at hostinthebox.net
Wed Jul 20 17:50:13 UTC 2005
Seun Wright wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to kickstart and I am testing it in a vmware environment. What
> I did was walked to the installation process installing all the packages
> I wanted installed. After the installation process, I wanted to try out
> the kickstart with the config file generated by anaconda
> (/root/anaconda-ks.cfg).
>
> Everything works just fine until it gets to the section where it has to
> install the packages, then it crashes. I found out after some testing
> that the issue has to do with the packages selected. Could someone
> please shed some light on my problem.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> install
> url --url
> ftp://mirror.stanford.edu//pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os
> lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> xconfig --card "VMWare" --videoram 16384 --hsync 31.5-37.9 --vsync 50-70
> --resolution 800x600 --depth 16
> network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
> rootpw --iscrypted XXX
> firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
> selinux --permissive
> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
> timezone America/Los_Angeles
> bootloader --location=mbr
> # The following is the partition information you requested
> # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
> # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not
> guaranteed to work
> #clearpart --all --drives=sda
> #part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda
> #part pv.11 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
> #volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.11
> #logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024
> --grow
> #logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00
> --size=256 --grow --maxsize=512
>
> %packages
> @ editors
> @ system-tools
> @ text-internet
> -perl-LDAP
> -doxygen
> -gcc-gfortran
> -perl-XML-Twig
> -samba-client
> kernel
> -mutt
> -pstack
> -fetchmail
> -perl-XML-NamespaceSupport
> -zsh
> grub
> -automake15
> -elfutils
> kernel-devel
> -ctags
> -texinfo
> -xdelta
> -diffstat
> -perl-Crypt-SSLeay
> -cvs
> -automake14
> -perl-XML-Parser
> -patchutils
> -cadaver
> -automake16
> -valgrind
> -nmap
> e2fsprogs
> -oprofile
> -perl-XML-LibXML-Common
> -cscope
> -slrn
> -perl-XML-Encoding
> -python-ldap
> -bluez-pin
> -perl-XML-Grove
> -openldap-clients
> lynx
> lvm2
> -perl-XML-SAX
> -valgrind-callgrind
> -rcs
> -ltrace
> -indent
> -perl-XML-LibXML
> -open
> sysstat
> -perl-XML-Dumper
> -byacc
> -automake17
> -ckermit %post
>
Hello, Seun -
Where's your partition layout specified? This example shows all of that
stuff commented out.
I don't recall off the top of my head at what point the system tries to
create partitions and install stuff, but I think it's right after it
makes the partitions. If it can't, then it will die when trying to
install packages.
Wait around here for a bit to see if anyone else can folow up on this.
Thanks
-dant
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