KVM installation using FTP Kickstart

f0olyc0oly · 08-13-2014, 07:26 PM

Hi guys,

So basically I'm studying for an exam and I'm at the topic for installing linux (i'm using Scientific Linux) using Kickstarter. I'm still kinda new here, so bare with me

My setup is as follows:
1. I have a VMware with a KVM based VM Scientific Linux with an ftp running with the installation files.
2. I created another separate VM for the installation using kickstarter via ftp.

While installing, I encountered an error..

Quote:

Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated.

Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: Scientific Linux. Please verify its path and try again

Fix I saw from google that I tried but didn't worked:
1. Comment the repo line
2. Change the bootproto from static to dhcp

I tried my own troubleshooting, changing some parameters here and there but all of them didn't work. Hopefully, you guys can help me.

f0olyc0oly · 08-14-2014, 07:01 AM

Below is the updated ks.cfg after doing the steps provided in THIS THREAD PLEASE HELP

Quote:

# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

#version=DEVEL
install
url --url ftp://192.168.122.1/pub/inst
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
rootpw --iscrypted $6$ACntvrAGnAeJTxkxI34oKpYa.lF71nay5oY9keTjjoeTSm9LH97AT1p6KxzjUfgXeiZBA16RJEN3w.x0LixZvMcq1
firewall --service=ssh
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc Asia/Singapore
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="crashkernel=auto rhgb 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 --drives=sda --all --initlabel
ignoredisk --only-use=sda

part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500
part / --fstype=ext4 --size=8192
part swap --size=1024
part /home --fstype=ext4 --size=1024
#part pv.008002 --grow --size=1

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

#repo --name="Scientific Linux" --baseurl=ftp://192.168.218.128/pub/inst --cost/=100

%packages
@base
@client-mgmt-tools
@console-internet
@core
@debugging
@basic-desktop
@directory-client
@fonts
@hardware-monitoring
@internet-browser
@java-platform
@large-systems
@misc-sl
@network-file-system-client
@performance
@perl-runtime
@scalable-file-systems
@server-platform
@x11
mtools
oddjob
sgpio
device-mapper-persistent-data
pax
samba-winbind
certmonger
pam_krb5
krb5-workstation
perl-DBD-SQLite
%end
shutdown
firstboot --disabled
%post