From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22wiz i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010421 Description of problem: unable to get kickstart to install via HTTP. Gets past formatting filesystems and starts to install packages when it receives a signal 9 and dies gracefully sends termination signal to all processes disables swap unmounting all filesystems msg to reboot How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. copy official RedHat directory to image server 2. make available via http 3. write kickstart file to point to image server 4. create boot disk from office cd 5. create update disk from errata 6. edit boot file on floopy to copy ks section, but put in ks=floppy to append section 7. boot new machine 8. select my ks section - ksf Actual Results: 1. sets up ram disks 2. gets netstg1 and 2, hdlist and comps (from http logs) 3. formats filesystems (anaconda msgs and debug screen F5) 4. displays package installation progress screen dies Expected Results: installed Base group Additional info: 119 packages (all that was in ks.cfg for %packages was @Base) 195 MB as soon as displayed, got... install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 9 sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /mnt/sysimage/var/spool/squid /mnt/sysimage/usr/local /mnt/sysimage/var/www /mnt/sysimage/home /mnt/sysimage/boot /mnt/sysimage/proc /mnt/sysimage/var /mnt/sysimage/usr /mnt/runtime/usr /proc/bus/usb /mnt/sysimage /mnt/runtime /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system
Created attachment 22407 [details] Kickstart File
attached kickstart file is incorrect correction to %packages @Base rest gone (also note space between @ and Base is gone)
noticed that there was no swap partition set. this is probably what caused the error put a swap line into the kickstart file, booted again and now it works properly silly me