-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/22/2013 04:25 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:54:04 -0400 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> > wrote: > >> >> At Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:04:22 -0700 CentOS mailing list >> <centos at centos.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 3/21/2013 3:42 PM, Robert Heller wrote: >>>> Is it because some package from the second disk is needed? Do I have >>>> to create a merged version of the DVDs? Or is something else wrong? >>> >>> >>> >>> I put a mirror of this, http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6/os/x86_64/ >>> on a local http server >>> >>> then I use the netinstall iso to boot the system or VM and have the >>> kickstart file point to the http url to run the install. if you do a >>> pxe boot of the netinstall image, even better. >> >> I created a local O/S repo by 'merging' the two DVD isos (copied DVD 1 to >> directory mounted under /var/www and then copied the contents of the >> Packages directory of the second DVD into the copy of the Packages >> directory) and then used this local repo as the install source. Same >> thing -- it hangs at selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch. CPU >> busy for awhile, then virtually zero CPU usage. Is it a memory problem? >> I've only allocated 1gig of RAM to this VM -- is that too little? Is >> there something 'special' about >> selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch? > > OK, I managed to install the VM. I did a 'Minumal-Desktop' install and > then installed the 300+ additional packages after the 'Minumal-Desktop' > completed and the VM rebooted (I used the package list from the 32-bit > 'Development-Workstation' install I did earlier). I still don't know why > selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6.noarch caused the install to go off > into never-never land... There was no problem doing a > 'Development-Workstation' install of the 32-bit version. My *only* guess > was the 1gig was not enough RAM for selinux-policy-targeted post-install > script with large number of installed packages, but there were no error > messages, so I really don't know what was going on. > >> >> My next option is to just treat this like I did for the Ubuntu VMs: do a >> *native* install on a scratch disk and then copy it over to the lvm >> volume. This means I will have burn two DVDs... Argggg. >> >>> >>> >> > It is quite possible that you rean out of memory. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFM6cEACgkQrlYvE4MpobMkLQCgm8eewwbdszgLX/MqRPKPNLzb In8AoMGELu1Jd6WwOoTE9yHqAxziLdcW =Jv5Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----