EL5 kickstart configuration issue

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Roger Leonard wrote:
> I have been using nfs kickstart for years with no issues by mounting iso 
> 1 and copying the “Redhat” dir to my installation area specified in my 
> ks.cfg and then mounting CD’s 2-5 and copying the Redhat/RPMS dir to the 
> installation RPMS dir.  This worked up until ES5 where it looks like the 
> installation paths changed from Redhat to Server and the rpms are 
> directly under the Server dir rather than being in a Redhat/RPMS dir.  
> So I copied the entire contents of my cd #1 to the installation area and 
> then mounted and copied just the Server dir to my installation area and 
> anaconda appears to work ok but as soon as it trys to install the rpms 
> it can’t find xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.2.el5.x86_64.rpm or says its 
> corrupt.  That file is there and is the same md5sum as the iso so it 
> looks like there is some sort of path issue or something.  Permissions 
> are fine.  Can anyone point me at the “proper”  way to set up a cdrom 
> based NFS kickstart installation tree with EL5?  Do I copy all the CD’s 
> over on top of each other in the installation area?  What am I missing here?
> 
>  

Actually you can just copy the ISO files into the NFS shared directory, 
it doesn't necessarily need to be an exploded tree.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip