Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file,
formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree." <snip> Well, it's morning, and I looked in the webserver log, and found[Mon Jul 11 17:14:22 2011] [error] [...] File does not exist: /.../CentOS/base/6/os/x86_64/images/updates.img [Mon Jul 11 17:14:22 2011] [error] [...] File does not exist: /.../CentOS/base/6/os/x86_64/images/product.img
I've mounted both the netinstall and DVD 1 isos, and they neither file exists on them. Should I assume that these .iso's are unreliable, and d/l newer ones?
mark
Ok, now you have me confused: should there not be such image files?
Look at the file names, it should be intuitive. As per the docs, if they exist, updates.img will apply updates:) etc...
http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?p=305
Looks like it's been removed from the 6x docs, but I haven't the time to be thorough atm but I see it in <=5x docs.
A patch for anaconda related to nfs installs shows its certainly in, and the apache logs indicate anaconda's attempt to find it...
Problem solved. Turns out that the repo that we had did not have comps.xml, and createrepo wasn't run.
Works now. Thanks for the suggestions, though, folks.
mark
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