[rhelv6-beta-list] Kickstart stopping at Installation Method screen

[MJang]

On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 18:16 -0700, MJang wrote:
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Can you provide more of your kickstart file? The error could be coming
> later than what you show.
> 
> I can't speak of RHEL6, but I do know that on earlier versions of RHEL,
> the anaconda-ks.cfg file generated by a manual install would have syntax
> errors that would prevent it from being used for an actual kickstart.
> 
> Prentice

Dear Prentice, 

As stated in my previous note, I had forgotten to delete the "askmethod"
from the boot screen -- and should have deleted the repo directive from
the Kickstart file. 

Once I took those steps, all was well.

Thanks,
Mike

> On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 06:14 -0700, MJang wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 10:07 -0700, MJang wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 10:04 -0700, MJang wrote:
> > > > On 10/07/2010 11:18 PM, MJang wrote: 
> > > > > Folks, 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm trying to test RHEL6 Kickstart on a KVM virtual machine. It stops on
> > > > > the Installation Method screen, where the choices are: 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Local CD/DVD
> > > > > Hard Drive
> > > > > NFS Directory
> > > > > URL
> > > > > 
> > > > > I end up having to
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- select URL
> > > > > -- enter the URL of the FTP server
> > > > > 
> > > > > Then the rest of the installation proceeds automatically, completing the
> > > > > installation without intervention.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I use the anaconda-ks.cfg on one KVM system, and copy it to the ks.cfg
> > > > > file on an FTP server. I can't find any related bug.
> > > > > 
> > > > > It's the same directory as the files where I copied the RHEL6 (beta 2
> > > > > server, i386) DVD.
> > > > 
> > > > Just to be clear - you mounted the DVD and then copied the contents?
> > > > Did you get all the dot files in the root of the DVD?
> > > 
> > > Yup, I have the .discinfo and .treeinfo files there too. I've also
> > > chcon'ed the tree for system_u and public_content_t. 
> > > 
> > > I've tried similar actions on an Ubuntu 10.04 host, using their release
> > > of KVM (and their vsFTP on /srv/ftp), and get the same result. I also
> > > get the same result with RHEL 5.5's vsFTP server.
> > > 
> > > Strangely enough, when I do something similar on RHEL 6 (b2)'s vsFTP
> > > server, under the /var/ftp/pub/ directory tree, I get an error message
> > > related to not being able to find repmod.xml. Based on the error
> > > messages (from the 3rd virtual console), I copied the DVD files
> > > to /var/ftp/, and that addressed that part of the problem. 
> > > 
> > > I didn't bring that up earlier, as I thought it might be related to
> > > something I'm missing with the url directive. (Of course, with that
> > > config on /var/ftp, I changed the url directive's URL accordingly, but
> > > still had to enter it manually during the Kickstart process.)
> > > 
> > > Unless there's something simple that I'm missing, the next step will be
> > > to file a bug.
> > 
> > Silly me, I forgot to delete the "askmethod" from the default messages
> > on the first DVD boot screen. As for the other thing, I should have
> > commented out the repo directive. 
> > 
> > All works fine now. Thanks for listening.
> > Mike
>