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