Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.roth at 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." >> >> A quick google gives me the first hit from a year ago, bug 4372 >> <http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4372>, which says there's a >> metadata problem. Has anyone else run into this today? > > I've PXE booted 64-bit CentOS 6 without any trouble. (I haven't tried > the 32-bit installer yet.) > > Are you using a local repository? Perhaps the source from which you > downloaded/rsynced it was in an unstable state. Yep. My manager d/l it; I found after I posted that he hadn't done a makerepo. Did that, no joy. Then the other admin here tells me I needed to do it with a file called comps.xml, which the repository that our manager sync'd from didn't have. He got that, I reran the createrepo w/ -g, and still no joy. Time for me to get out of here, and pick it up in the morning. mark