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Vishal Kotcherlakota
Asked: 2012-07-30 16:49:39 +0800 CST

Red Hat Kickstart install stops to ask me to edit the repository when I'm using the DVD repo

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So, I've been trying to get a kickstart install with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 to work, using the package repo on the DVD. As such, I've tried using the following line in my ks.cfg:

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

However, that doesn't seem to work. The installer can't find the repo, and the install fails. Have I got the repo syntax wrong?

UPDATE: It looks like I've got a more serious problem. Even if I boot without using the kickstart file, the installer reports that there is a problem with the generation of my install tree. I'm going to go ahead and run this install manually now, but it is a bummer that I can't get kickstart to work. :(

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2 Answers

  1. I hope you're still working on this, because I ran into something similar when I was building my own iso. You need to set the baseurl to file://mnt/source to load from the repository on the DVD, e.g.

    repo --name="Scientific Linux" --baseurl=file:///mnt/source --cost=100

    When kickstart is able to find the repo, it will also resolve your install tree error. At least, it did for me.

    Best of luck

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  2. The path was changed, consider trying the following:

    repo --name="Scientific Linux" --baseurl=file:///mnt/install/source --cost=100
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