From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: Anaconda crashes during kickstart install, asks meto save the crash information and submit a bug report. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Attempt a kickstart install with the attached ks.cfg (or one of several variations) Actual Results: Anaconda crashes Expected Results: Successful install Additional info: ks.cfg: #Generated by Kickstart Configurator lang en_US langsupport en_US keyboard us mouse none device ethernet eepro100 timezone --utc America/Denver rootpw --iscrypted $1$hrQ.52Qm$26xlwZUVhWR1Bsl1vQgce. reboot bootloader --location=mbr install url --url http://master.beowulf.usu.edu/redhat network --bootproto dhcp auth --useshadow --enablemd5 firewall --disabled clearpart --all part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 64 part swap --size 1024 part / --fstype ext3 --size 1024 --grow #Do not configure the X Window System skipx %packages @Classic X Window System @X Window System @Network Support @Network Managed Workstation @Utilities
Created attachment 36302 [details] Saved debug stuff from a crashed install attempt
I have been trying different ks.cfg variations as I install on different machines and I now believe the problem is with the specification of the URL for the http install method. I couldn't find a way to make it work, but when the url is left out of ks.cfg and specified manually things work ok. Still not as useful as a completely silent install, but better than manually configuring everything.
What are the contents of the redhat/ directory on master.beowulf.usu.edu?
The redhat iso's are mounted on loop devices as http://master.beowulf.usu.edu/redhat/disc1 http://master.beowulf.usu.edu/redhat/disc2 I have opened up the external interface so you can see this at http://glaber.biology.usu.edu/redhat
I think that the easiest thing thing to do is to copy the contents of the ISOs to the NFS server instead of loopback mounting the ISOs. That should solve all the problems.