I recently built my first CentOS kickstart config on a CentOS 7 system; it runs well, but the OS and its tools are old enough that it's causing pain with the apps I want to run on top of said system, so I'm trying to port it to CentOS 8.
I've taken the anaconda-ks.cfg file created from a successful manual install (of both regular 8 and Stream), placed it on my DVD ISO, and wrapped things back up like I was doing with CentOS 7. I'm successfully beginning the installation, but running into "Error setting up base repository" - despite having not touched either the filesystem structure of the ISO, or the generated kickstart file that points at my repos.
Here is the relevant config:
#version=RHEL8 # Use graphical install graphical
repo --name="AppStream" --baseurl=file:///run/install/sources/mount-0000-cdrom/AppStream
%packages @^minimal-environment @development kexec-tools
%end
# Keyboard layouts keyboard --xlayouts='us' # System language lang en_US.UTF-8
# Network information network --hostname=localhost.localdomain
# Use CDROM installation media cdrom
# Run the Setup Agent on first boot firstboot --enable
ignoredisk --only-use=sda autopart # Partition clearing information clearpart --none --initlabel
# System timezone timezone America/New_York --isUtc
%addon com_redhat_kdump --enable --reserve-mb='auto'
%end
%anaconda pwpolicy root --minlen=6 --minquality=1 --notstrict --nochanges --notempty pwpolicy user --minlen=6 --minquality=1 --notstrict --nochanges --emptyok pwpolicy luks --minlen=6 --minquality=1 --notstrict --nochanges --notempty %end
When I switched over to a console to try to troubleshoot this, I noticed that /run/install/sources/mount-0000-cdrom/AppStream didn't exist (the "mount-0000-cdrom" directory is empty), but /run/install/repo/AppStream does, and appears to have all the right information within it. I've tried specifying that directory as the baseurl instead, and get no difference in behavior.
The only other file I've touched is isolinux/isolinux.cfg on the DVD, with the relevant line now being:
append initrd=initrd.img inst.ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS-Stream-8-x86_64-dvd quiet
What am I doing wrong here? This seems like basic config, but obviously I've missed something...