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G'day -
I'm stumped. I'm attempting to kickstart a relatively slim install
for a gateway, and it refuses to install Perl, even when it's
specifically asked for. To simplify diagnostics, I've eliminated
custom selection of packages, and have determined that the following
steps will reproduce the problem:
Install Red Hat 7.1, selecting these package groups:
- - networked workstation
- - dialup workstation
- - utilities
Complete the install, and reboot. Confirm that Perl is present
('which perl'), and it is. Now use mkkickstart to produce a ks.cfg.
Completes successfully, except that when reading partition tables,
gives this on the console:
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000320-00000323>
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000320-00000323>
Check the newly created ks.cfg, and perl is listed. Delete the
reference to cdrom (this will be an nfs install), and fix the
partitioning entries (they don't get created properly). Re-run
install using this kickstart config, and everything goes as planned
... except that perl doesn't get installed.
Since my postinstall config script is a Perl routine, this is a
decidedly inconvenient state of affairs. So ... I circumvent this by
adding an rpm command for perl to my postinstall config, thus
hammering it into place, and that works.
Other minor kickstart bugs: despite the specification of keyboard,
language, and nfs locations in the kickstart file, I still have to
respond manually to these dialogs before the install will proceed.
This is consistently true over several different types of installs,
however, while the Perl problem is unique to the trimmed-down gateway
builds.
Before I file my bug reports, anyone care to comment on anything I
might have missed?
- -d
- --
David Talkington
http://www.spotnet.org
PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc
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