Hi All, This has to be something simple....but it's really busting my chops. We have a PXE boot server that is used for initial installation of a number of operating systems and it works well. However the CentOS 5.1 x86_64 install is seriously broken. We've made the PXE boot images available from "centos/5/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/" in the tftp boot etc. We've rsynced our mirror with a local Tier 1 mirror (rsync://ftp.monash.edu.au::ftp/linux/CentOS/) Next we fire off the installation using the following in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default: label 4 kernel centos5/x86_64/vmlinuz append initrd=centos5/x86_64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=7000 ks=http://<insternal_install_server>/CentOS-5/dot/kickstart/ks.cfg.x86_64 ksdevice=eth0 language=en text The installer starts, loads the kickstart script (attached), successfully verifies the installation media, checks the dependencies for the packages to be installed, formats the hard drive(s), then attempts to download the package: sysklogd-1.4.1-39.2.x86_64.rpm At this point the installation will not continue because that package is not part of the installation! I've verified our internal mirror with 3 other Tier 1 rsync hosts and all agree, our images are up-to-date and the CORRECT sysklogd package is actually: sysklogd-1.4.1-40.el5.x86_64.rpm (Note the build is 40.el5, NOT 39.2). I've tried creating a symbolic link from sysklogd-1.4.1-40.el5.x86_64.rpm -> sysklogd-1.4.1-39.2.x86_64.rpm, and sourcing a real package for sysklogd-1.4.1-39.2.x86_64.rpm. These last two attempts have still resulted in the installer claiming the RPM is corrupt, not available etc. This is killing us :( The odd thing is the James -- There will be big changes for you but you will be happy. -------------- next part -------------- # This kickstart configuration is for a PowerEdge 2850 # Creates system partitions (requires approx 30GB) and # leaves any extra space unformatted. ###################################### # Start global configuration options # ###################################### # See the kickstart documentation for an explanation of these options # http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html lang en_AU langsupport en_AU keyboard us mouse timezone Australia/Sydney rootpw --iscrypted <crypted password here> reboot install url --url http://<internal_install_server>/CentOS-5/os/x86_64 bootloader --location=mbr # Wipe the MBR zerombr yes # Remove the existing partition table clearpart --all --initlabel # Disk partitioning information part /boot --fstype ext2 --size 100 --asprimary --ondisk=sda part swap --size 2048 --asprimary --ondisk=sda part / --fstype ext3 --size 10240 --asprimary --ondisk=sda part /home --fstype ext3 --size 3072 --ondisk=sda part /tmp --fstype ext2 --size 500 --ondisk=sda part /var --fstype ext3 --size 16384 --ondisk=sda auth --useshadow --enablemd5 firewall --disabled selinux --disabled skipx # Perform installation in text mode to save probing video hardware text #################################### # End global configuration options # #################################### # Package install information %packages --resolvedeps e2fsprogs grub kernel lynx net-snmp net-snmp-utils strace ntp exim vim-enhanced vim-common perl-Digest-HMAC perl-Digest-SHA1 # Packages to remove -NetworkManager -aspell -aspell-en -bluez-bluefw -bluez-hcidump -bluez-libs -bluez-utils -cups -cups-libs -dos2unix -dosfstools -finger -fontconfig -freetype -glib -gpm -hesiod -htmlview -ipsec-tools -irda-utils -isdn4k-utils -lftp -lha -libjpeg -libpng -libtiff -nano -pcmcia-cs -pinfo -ppp -redhat-lsb -rp-pppoe -sendmail -talk -unix2dos -unzip -wireless-tools -wvdial -xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL -xorg-x11-libs -yp-tools -ypbind -zip %post echo "Automated Dot SOE installation `/bin/date`" > /etc/motd # Install BCFG2 client rpm -i http://<internal_install_server>/CentOS-5/local/RPMS/x86_64/redhat-lsb-3.0-8.EL.dot.x86_64.rpm rpm -i http://<internal_install_server>/CentOS-5/local/RPMS/x86_64/lxml-0.9-1.x86_64.rpm rpm -i http://<internal_install_server>/CentOS-5/local/RPMS/noarch/bcfg2-0.8.4-2.dot.noarch.rpm # Install default configuration files wget http://<internal_install_server>/CentOS-5/local/config/snmpd.conf -O /etc/snmpd/snmpd.conf wget http://<internal_install_server>/CentOS-5/local/config/exim.conf -O /etc/exim/exim.conf wget http://<internal_install_server>/CentOS-5/local/config/bcfg2.conf -O /etc/bcfg2.conf # Turn off root logins via SSH echo -en '\n#Turn off root login via sshd\nPermitRootLogin no\n' >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config # Turn off unwanted services chkconfig --del cpuspeed chkconfig --del iptables chkconfig --del kudzu chkconfig --del mdmonitor chkconfig --del microcode_ctl chkconfig --del rpcidmapd chkconfig --del rpcgssd chkconfig --del smartd chkconfig --del xinetd chkconfig --del gpm chkconfig --del lm_sensors chkconfig --del haldaemon chkconfig --del messagebus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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