From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010622 Description of problem: In trying to duplicate an existing system (identical config) I tried to use the "linux ks=floppy" option at the LILO prompt. It read the loppy and started anaconda and crashes (output saved on disk and is below). The install worked fine when I simply did an install from the CDs and didn't use kickstart at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info: 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 updateInstClassComps self.selectPackage(n) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 826, in selectPackage raise ValueError, str ValueError: package howto is not available Local variables in innermost frame: package: howto str: package howto is not available self: <todo.ToDo instance at 81f1aa8> ... more information in file (if it helps)
It looks like your kickstart file includes a package called 'howto' that doesn't exist. The installer is trying to install that package, and it fails when the package isn't found. There was no 'howto' package distributed with 7.1. If you remove this from the %packages section of the kickstart file, things should work from there. Please reopen this bug report if this doesn't fix the problem.