[CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

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