On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, anax wrote: > Hi listers > i tried to kickstart-install CentOS 6.0 64 in a Virtualbox (Virtualbox > Version 4.12). I used a local CDROM with the net-install ISO on it to > boot from. The ISO distribution file was provided on a server in the LAN > as was the kickstart file. > When starting the installation i aded the following to the kernel line > of the grub menu: > ks=http://install.mydomain.com/ks/centos.6.64.cfg > > After i had corrected some errors in the kickstart file, the > installation started as expected. > But it did not terminate as expected: after installing 198 of 671 > packages, the installation halted with an error (i.e. after installing > the package libutempter). > In order to see what the problem was, i restarted from the CDROM in > recovery mode, and after going into the half-way installed system, i saw > in the anaconda log that about three quarters of the post-installation > scripts of the packages had returned a warning. The warning code was > 255. But the post-installation script of the package libutempter had > returned an error with code 255, whereupon the installation stopped. > > I thought, OK, we will work around the libutempter package by selecting > other program-groups in the kickstart-file. But i had no luck: the > installation stopped then after the package MAKEDEV. This is a known bug of CentOS 6.0. Redo the install without including the updates repo in your kickstart file, and you'll find it installs fine. jh