[CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

[Alfred von Campe]

On May 14, 2009, at 23:36, nate wrote:

> hmm, is your package selection particularly complex? In my case
> I list hundreds of packages in my %packages section I don't have
> groups and stuff. I assume your using a stock CentOS install
> and you didn't put any of your own 3rd party rpms in the installation
> and update the comps.xml(?) file to include them?

No, it's not very complex (see below).  I use a stock CentOS install  
for kickstart, but I do install some packages from the RPMforge repo  
during the post installation phase.  I've been using this package  
list for years with some minor modifications:

%packages
@ admin-tools
@ authoring-and-publishing
@ base
@ base-x
@ development-tools
@ editors
@ emacs
@ engineering-and-scientific
@ games
@ gnome-desktop
@ gnome-software-development
@ graphical-internet
@ graphics
@ kde-desktop
@ kde-software-development
@ legacy-software-development
@ office
@ printing
@ server-cfg
@ smb-server
@ sound-and-video
@ system-tools
@ text-internet
@ web-server
@ x-software-development
-dmraid
-yum-updatesd
boost
boost-devel
dejagnu
ElectricFence
foomatic
expect
minicom
mkisofs
ncurses-devel
openmotif
system-config-boot
system-config-kickstart
system-switch-mail
system-switch-mail-gnome
vim-X11
wireshark-gnome

> I'm not sure what to suggest..if your packages selection is complex
> try simplifying it. I believe what is going on during that stage is
> it's calculating all of the dependencies and stuff.

I've tried removing a few things from the package list, but it still  
hung.  Maybe I'll check the list archives for how to do a minimal  
install and try that, and then manually add all the remaining  
packages I need to see if that fixes the problem.

Alfred