So adding on: repo --name="BaseOS" --baseurl=file:///run/install/sources/mount-0000-cdrom/BaseOS ...didn't help at all. Neither did adding the symlink out of the BaseOS directory to the images subdirectory above it. I did notice this time, however, that when I click into the "Installation Source" button of the UI where the erorr is, if I click on the repos being read from my Kickstart file, there's a small error at the bottom of the page that says "Repository name conflicts with internal repository name". That seems weird, since again I'm basing this on a successful manual install - why would that write a conflicting repo name to the config? On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:52 PM James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote: > Alex Kirk wrote: > > I recently built my first CentOS kickstart config on a CentOS 7 system; > it > > I've taken the anaconda-ks.cfg file created from a successful manual > > install (of both regular 8 and Stream), placed it on my DVD ISO, and > > wrapped things back up like I was doing with CentOS 7. I'm successfully > > beginning the installation, but running into "Error setting up base > > repository" - despite having not touched either the filesystem structure > of > > the ISO, or the generated kickstart file that points at my repos. > > I don't know if it's connected, but I had a problem (with a similar > errors) when installing 8.3.2011 over httpd using a copy of the contents of > the 8.3.2011 iso > > My kickstart file contained: > > url --url="http://distro/CentOS/8.3.2011" > repo --name="AppStream" --baseurl=http://disto/CentOS/8.3.2011/AppStream > > This was a copy of what I has done with 8.1.1911 - which worked OK > > I couldn't get 8.3.2011 to install, until I hacked things so the kickstart > contained: > > url --url="http://distro/CentOS/8.3.2011/BaseOS" > repo --name="AppStream" --baseurl=http://disto/CentOS/8.3.2011/AppStream > > but I also had to put a symlink in the BaseOS subdir of: > > images -> ../images > > i.e. it worked with 8.1.1911 but not 8.3.2011 (I never tried 8.2.2004) > > I don't know if this is a bug or I'm doing something wrong? > > James Pearson > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alex Kirk Global Principal, Suricata 404-291-6588 akirk at corelight.com