We just had to install a couple of SL 6.1 machines (due to collaboration dependency on this version) and strangely found that the installation would bomb every time with an anaconda error when trying to parse /tmp/.treeinfo. The file contains the following contents:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>300 Multiple Choices</title> </head><body> <h1>Multiple Choices</h1> The document name you requested (<code>/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/updates/security//.treeinfo</code>) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested.<p>Available documents: <ul> <li><a href="/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/updates/security//.">/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/updates/security//.</a> (common basename) <li><a href="/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/updates/security//..">/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/updates/security//..</a> (common basename) </ul> </body></html> This is curious because we are installing from a local copy of the 6.1 repo, our kickstart file hasn't changed in a long time, worked ok when last used earlier this year, etc. To cut a long story short I eventually found this at scientificlinuxforum.org: http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=2302 it was suggested there that someone post this to the SL lists but I don't see any sign that happened. Their workaround of a dummy hosts entry for ftp.scientificlinux.org does let the install succeed, but I imagine that either putting the file back into place, or disabling the "helpful" response from the server in favor of a plain 404 response, should help? Although I'm curious why anaconda is attempting to download a file from ftp.scientificlinux.org when all the declared sources are local - some oversight in the installer build? The same problem afflicts SL 6.0, btw. Thanks, Graham -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graham Allan School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota -------------------------------------------------------------------------