Alfred von Campe wrote:
I've been using kickstart successfully with a local mirror going back to CentOS 4.X. I'm trying to install CentOS 5.3 via kickstart on a new system (which happens to be different than most other systems I've installed on), and the install process always hangs shortly after the partitions are created. If I go to the alternate console #3, the last two lines are always this (except that the time stamp changes every time I try it of course):
How long does it hang? CentOS 5.x takes much longer to get to the point where it is installing packages than 4.x, probably a good 3-4 minutes more, perhaps longer if your mirror is over a WAN connection, my mirror is on the local LAN and it does take a long time as well though it always has(CentOS 5.0,5.1,5.2, haven't tried 5.3).
Unless your waiting for hours for it to go I think what your seeing is "normal". I'd suggest using a mirror on your local network to see if it speeds anything up, but I think most of the time is spent on the client calculating the various things it needs for packages.
nate