Description of problem: * Network kickstart installation fails due to a corruption (cramfs?) in the stage2.img image Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): * FC3-test3-x86_64-DVD.iso How reproducible: * Easy, in multiple ways Steps to Reproduce: Original way: 1. I do kickstart network install using a loopback mounted DVD image on an Athlon64 machine with 1GB RAM 2. Everything goes fine for a while but at some point spills lots of messages on the console 3 about failed blocks from loop0 and uncomression errors. After a while the installer crashes. Other way: 1. On the kickstart server go to the directory that serves as the loopback mount point for the DVD. In my case the server is Redhat9 with all the Redhat9 updates (kernel 2.4). 2. Copy Fedora/base/stage2.img to a regular file system (not necessary but just to avoid confusion). Mount it and dd all the files to /dev/null mount -o loop,ro stage2.img for f in $(find /mnt -type f) ; do dd if=$f of=/dev/null done Check /var/log/messages frequently. After a while there are plenty cramfs messages about a corrupted file system, then the machine goes nuts :( Additional info: I am not sure it this is related but see bug 104503 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104503
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