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 >