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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Description of problem: Trying to install RedHat 8.0 on a Celeron PC (333Mhz, 192 Mb RAM), using a kickstart file generated by the Kickstart Configurator on a working RH8.0 system, results in anaconda crashing with an unhandled exception. When generating the kickstart file I selected only the Minimal group of packages, figuring that should give me a basic working system that I could add to later. Installing from floppy with the generated ks.cfg file failed right after the "reading package information" message with a python error, attached. The CDROM containing the packages passed the mediacheck test. If I regenerate the ks.cfg file and select another package group as well as the @Minimal specification, the install crashes with exactly the same error as @Minimal alone. But if I uncheck @Minimal, the install works fine. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Generate a kickstart file with redhat-config-kickstart 2. Select the Minimal package group under Package Selection/Miscellaneous 3. Install RedHat using the kickstart file
Created attachment 89614 [details] Error dump from anaconda
This appears to be a bug with the redhat-config-kickstart program. @Minimal is not a legal name for a component. You want to use @Base.
Should be fixed in redhat-config-packages as of version 2.3.3-5 and later. I removed the options for "Minimal" and "Everything" on Nov. 25, 2002. If you want minimum, just don't select any groups. If you want Everything, select all the groups.
Correction: I mean redhat-config-kickstart-2.3.3-5, not redhat-config-packages.