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Jon,
If you can do this again and send me the /tmp/anaconda.log when it
fails.
-connie sieh
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
>
>> Please test the following release. It now includes a DVD iso image. There
>> will be cd iso images tomorrow.
>>
> <snip>
>
> I was just about to try the previous version but since this is now
> available :-)
>
> Having rsync'd over a copy and added the trivial entry to my pxe setup:
>
> label sl5rm
> kernel sl/5rolling/i386/vmlinuz
> append initrd=sl/5rolling/i386/initrd.img \
> method=nfs:instserv.damtp.cam.ac.uk:/inst/linux/sl/upstream/5rolling/i386/
> ip=dhcp
>
> I successfully started the installer. In fact I got quite carried away and
> spent some time picking the exact disk layout and exactly which packages to
> install -- I'd planned to extract the list from the anaconda-ks.cfg it makes
> for later reference...
>
> It went off did various things to check dependencies (that message came up
> twice), and created the new fs, then said it was doing something about
> transactions being prepared 'this may take several minutes' (the usual
> message I think), and then errored saying that the transaction had failed
> with error(s): (nothing), and tells me to reboot.
>
> At the shell on VC2 I couldn't see any obvious errors left in files nor any
> reason for the failure. Didn't anaconda used to be a bit more chatty about
> errors -- it used to offer a python traceback which at least let one see
> which piece of code was crashing...
>
> So I did it again and got the same results. Trying a 3rd time but not
> altering the set of packages to be installed worked.
>
> I then foolishly picked some packages to install with yum and it is busy
> downloading them all from your repo, which looks like it might take several
> hours (an excuse to go home). I must remember to add a local repo entry
> before doing that in future.
>
> btw /etc/yum.repos.d/sl.repo has an obvious typo in it:
>
> name=SL 4 base
>
> I've not checked yet but can $releasever be used here as well as in the
> baseurl info?
>
> I'll try some of this again tomorrow with slightly fresher eyes.
>
> -- Jon
>
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