RE: Kickstarting RHEL 6.2 issues

I resolved my issue..it was a bad ISO :)

Thanks!
-Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: Cole, Jim 
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:12 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Kickstarting RHEL 6.2 issues

I'm having issues creating a kickstart for RHEL 6.2 so I just walked through the installer, used the kickstart file generated into /root and tried to incorporate that into the isolinux.cfg file.

The error I'm getting is "unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory"

Can not retrieve repository meadata (repomd.xml) for repository: Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Please verify its path and try again.

Can someone please help?

Thanks!
-Jim



The anaconda-ks.cfg was renamed to jim.ks and placed into the isolinux dir on a 6.2 DVD.

Here is my isolinux.cfg:
menu color title 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color tabmsg 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color unsel 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color hotsel 0 #ff000000 #ffffffff
menu color hotkey 7 #ffffffff #ff000000
menu color scrollbar 0 #ffffffff #00000000

label linux
  menu label ^Install or upgrade an existing system
  menu default
  kernel vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img
label vesa
  menu label Install system with ^basic video driver
  kernel vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img xdriver=vesa nomodeset label rescue
  menu label ^Rescue installed system
  kernel vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img rescue
label local
  menu label Boot from ^local drive
  localboot 0xffff
label memtest86
  menu label ^Memory test
  kernel memtest
  append -
label jim
  menu label jim
  kernel vmlinuz
  append append ks=cdrom://isolinux/jim.ks initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192


Here is the jim.ks:
# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

#version=DEVEL
install
cdrom
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --onboot no --device eth0 --noipv4 --noipv6 rootpw  --iscrypted $6$g9mqaBzA12oOR8LU$28Dj4b08Mv4VL5ToT0VVf7cIoTwwDywgsOieFyO1R9JdXkWoqYumMgHSRo4Q7ZZgtJc0JkrXmZmqzD4pDwRAC1
firewall --service=ssh
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 selinux --enforcing timezone --utc America/Chicago bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append=" rhgb crashkernel=auto quiet"
# The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work #clearpart --all --drives=sda

#part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500
#part pv.008002 --grow --size=1

#volgroup vg_hpm --pesize=4096 pv.008002 #logvol /home --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_home --vgname=vg_hpm --grow --size=100 #logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_hpm --grow --size=1024 --maxsize=51200 #logvol swap --name=lv_swap --vgname=vg_hpm --grow --size=2016 --maxsize=4032

repo --name="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"  --baseurl=cdrom:sr0 --cost=100

%packages
@additional-devel
@base
@client-mgmt-tools
@core
@debugging
@basic-desktop
@desktop-debugging
@desktop-platform
@desktop-platform-devel
@development
@directory-client
@eclipse
@emacs
@fonts
@general-desktop
@graphical-admin-tools
@graphics
@input-methods
@internet-browser
@java-platform
@legacy-x
@network-file-system-client
@performance
@perl-runtime
@print-client
@remote-desktop-clients
@server-platform
@server-platform-devel
@server-policy
@tex
@technical-writing
@virtualization
@virtualization-client
@virtualization-platform
@x11
libXinerama-devel
openmotif-devel
libXmu-devel
xorg-x11-proto-devel
startup-notification-devel
libgnomeui-devel
libbonobo-devel
junit
libXau-devel
libgcrypt-devel
popt-devel
libdrm-devel
libXrandr-devel
libxslt-devel
libglade2-devel
gnutls-devel
mtools
pax
python-dmidecode
oddjob
sgpio
genisoimage
wodim
abrt-gui
desktop-file-utils
ant
rpmdevtools
jpackage-utils
rpmlint
certmonger
pam_krb5
krb5-workstation
netpbm-progs
openmotif
libXmu
libXp
perl-DBD-SQLite
libvirt-java
%end