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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) Clean Reinstall from 6.2 to 7.1, intel, 40mb ram, around 200Mhz 1) Kickstartinstallation with ks.cfg on a bootfloppy: it seems, that the script is not accessed: the installer asks for language, ip, install-method... what happens, if there is an error in the script: does the script stops completly or will the script just ask for the wrong/missing part? 2) after giving the proper informations (language, ip ...), I choose nfs-install, and giving the needed informations (server, directory), anaconda starts and crashes with the errormessage: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run rc = apply (step[1](), args) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 551, in __call__ if todo.doInstall (): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1698, in doInstall self.getCompsList() File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 770, in getCompsList self.updateInstClassComps () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 811, in updateInstClassComp s self.selectPackage(n) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 826, in selectPackage raise ValueError, str ValueError: package XFree86-XF86Setup is not available Local variables in innermost frame: package: XFree86-XF86Setup str: package XFree86-XF86Setup is not available and another 400k from the anaconda-dumb Does anyone has an idea? Philipp Fischer Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. updating an existing ks.cfg to the redhat 7.1 standard 2. mounting and copying the bootnet.img and the scrips to an floppy 3. booting from floppy, choosing install about nfs, anaconda starts Actual Results: anaconda fails with an error message Expected Results: 7.1 should be installed over nfs
1)It depends. If you leave required sections out of the ks.cfg file (like networking), the installer will prompt you for the information. However, if you totally bogus or nonsensical information in the ks.cfg file, it is quite possible that the installer will crash while trying to make sense of the data. 2)It looks like you have a corrupt install image or your NFS server was not set up properly. See bug #29095 for details. Thanks for your report. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29095 ***
Nope, neither rewriting the ks.cfg nor using three diferent cds, iso and downloaded files resolved the problem.
Oh, sorry. You must be using an older kickstart file...we don't ship the XFree86-Setup package any more. If that package is listed in your kickstart file, then it's telling the installer to install a package that isn't there. Does this help clarify things?
Sorrz, nope, it didn' t help. I checked all packages and data in the ks.cfg. According to the manual, all should be correct. lang en_US nfs --server horschd.foo.fh-furtwangen.de --dir /disk/horschd-disk2/ftp/pub/os/rh71/ device ethernet 3c509 --opts "io=0x300, irq=10" network --bootproto static --device eth0 --ip 141.28.64.28 --gateway 141.28.64.254 --nameserver 141.28.64.7 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --hostname arath.foo.fh-furtwangen.de device scsi aic7xxx keyboard us zerombr no clearpart --linux part swap --size 127 part / --size 150 part /usr --size 500 --grow install mouse timezone Europe/Berlin xconfig --monitor "Generic06" rootpw --iscrypted tde0Yh80BHfQY auth --nisdomain foo lilo --location mbr %packages @ X Window System @ GNOME @ Mail/WWW/News Tools @ Graphics Manipulation @ Networked Workstation @ Authoring/Publishing @ Emacs @ Development @ Kernel Development XFree86-VGA16 #XFree86-XF86Setup XFree86-xf86cfg adjtimex am-utils arpwatch bootparamd compat-glibc compat-libs comsat dump exmh finger-server freetype-devel freetype-utils giftrans gimp-data-extras gperf #inetd xinetd ircii #kernelcfg libelf libjpeg6a libpcap mgetty mkinitrd mkkickstart mtools #ncurses3 ncurdes4 openldap procinfo procps-X11 python-devel python-docs python-tools qt qt1x rgrep rsh-server rusers-server rwall sed sendmail-cf sendmail-doc symlinks talk-server tcpdump tetex-doc transfig ucd-snmp ucd-snmp-utils unarj unzip wget xfig xmailbox #xntp3 ntp4 xrn xsysinfo zip zlib-devel %post
What does the error message look like now? Also, I'm not sure if you can use '#' characters as comments in the packages section. Try removing those packages from your kickstart file completely and see if that helps.
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