From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Description of problem: During a RH7.1 kickstart, "An error has occurred - no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem." ks.cfg: #Generated by Kickstart Configurator device scsi --opts=aic7xxx clearpart --all lang en_US keyboard us mouse generic3ps/2 timezone --utc America/Denver rootpw --iscrypted <my encrypted password> lilo --location mbr url --url ftp://<my ftp server>/pub install firewall --disabled zerombr yes part /boot --size 23 part swap --size 2047 part swap --size 2047 part / --size 258 part /var --size 1200 part /tmp --size 1043 part /usr --size 2055 network --bootproto static --ip <my ipaddress> --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway <my gateway> --nameserver <my nameserver> auth --useshadow --enablemd5 --enablenis --nisdomain <my domain> %packages @GNOME @Kernel Development @Networked Workstation @Printer Support @X Window System ** I can install fine from cdrom. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Place kickstart diskette in floppy drive 2.Boot 3. Additional info:
Does an intereactive install work? Could you possibly use the 7.3 release? It has alot of bug fixes.
Yes, an install from cd works fine. Most companies do not have the luxury of changing OS everytime a new one comes out. We have almost 50 linux servers in 7 different sites. It's a bad idea in a production environment to throw the latest OS on a system that is currently working for an engineering team attempting to meet schedule deadlines. The only reason I am installing this OS now is to add X Windows which I originally didn't think we needed, but it turns out we do. fyi, I recently installed 7.2 on two of these Dell 1550 systems and immediately lost all NFS access, so went back to the OS that worked for me. System admin. in a different location tried installing 7.3 on a Dell 2550 and it began sending tons of NFS broadcast traffic, completely hosing their network. Again, they returned to the last known good OS. (In their case, it was 7.2!) So, unfortunately, going to 7.3 is not an option for me. If you don't want to fix this, I'll just reinstall all 10 systems by cd. Just for future reference, does this mean that unless I have a bug with the latest RH OS, I shouldn't bother to file a bug report?
We do not actively backport fixes to previous releases of the Red Hat Linux product. We roll our fixes into the next release. The Red Hat Advanced Server product aims for a longer (> 12month) support cycle, and is probably better for what you're looking at.