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Problems installing RH6 over network on VMware

I've been trying to install a new vm-machine over the network, while the installation server is another vm-ware machine.

now I've checked with another virtual machine that the server ftp services is OK and even downloaded the ks.cfg file from the server.
but when I try to do a network installation, I get this error:

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/8004/kserror.jpg

any clues? thanks in advance

I'm guessing that the boot image you're using might be corrupt... try a different copy of the media

Hmmm.. the media i'm using to install the guest machine is locally at /var/ftp/pub/inst

the thing is I also ran 'createrepo /var/ft/pub/inst/Package' and made it the repository for the server machine

is createrepo on the packages directory may be the problem?

Possibly, did you point it at the comps.xml (?I think) file when you did createrepo?

I've tried now to copy a fresh install of rhel 6, but again I get the same error. so It's not the CD (the cd works) and it's not the issue with the repository.

any more idea's what can it be?

EDIT: OK, now I've succeeded to use the remote installation server, but I can't get the ks.cfg to work.
I even created a new one with system-config-kickstart, but it always stuck on "Waiting for NetworkManager to configure eth0."

my ks.cfg file is available, I can download it with another virtual machine. Looks like just the installation can't find it..

Post the kickstart ...

Code:

# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.



#version=RHEL6

install

url --url=ftp://192.168.0.6/pub/inst

lang en_US.UTF-8

keyboard us

network --bootproto=static --ip=192.168.0.115 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=192.168.0.115 --nameserver=192.168.0.6

rootpw  --iscrypted $6$oRePXL93jblQIiqO$euwWgOSpUSmuonScDFwz3gZ2u4UY4Wrxm.6C.nvc0Rnxbr.QfG4sIZZQ8zzwIRR6HsWcfFJxoVzC1XkqnVByf/

firewall --service=ssh

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 --enablefingerprint

selinux --enforcing

timezone --utc Asia/Tel_Aviv

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 --none --drives=sda



part /boot --fstype=ext4 --asprimary --size=100

part swap --size=2000

part /        --fstype=ext4        --asprimary --size=2000

#part pv.HZCXBo-4lZ3-Uf3V-63k5-o3rI-jfN1-xrBu8Z --grow --size=200



#volgroup vg_server --pesize=4096 pv.HZCXBo-4lZ3-Uf3V-63k5-o3rI-jfN1-xrBu8Z

#logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_server --size=10000

repo --name="RedHat Ent. Linux"  --baseurl=ftp://192.168.0.6/pub/repo/ --cost=100



%packages

@base

@core

@debugging

@basic-desktop

@desktop-debugging

@desktop-platform

@directory-client

@fonts

@general-desktop

@graphical-admin-tools

@input-methods

@internet-browser

@java-platform

@legacy-x

@network-file-system-client

@perl-runtime

@print-client

@remote-desktop-clients

@server-platform

@server-policy

@x11

mtools

pax

python-dmidecode

oddjob

sgpio

genisoimage

wodim

abrt-gui

certmonger

pam_krb5

krb5-workstation

nscd

pam_ldap

nss-pam-ldapd

libXmu

perl-DBD-SQLite

%end

It gets stuck at the beginning of the installation with an 'error configuring eth0' and a retry option.
I tried public my ks.cfg with http, and ftp, with no success.
I also can access the file from another virtual machine and the host machine.

Try changing the gateway and see if that works.

The thing to check would be if the network in which you are trying to install has that IP range. It seems like the kickstart is unable to assign and activate the NIC using that IP. Maybe you set the NIC of the VM to NAT. Maybe try bridged?