Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-17 Thread Clint Dilks
Alfred von Campe wrote: > On May 14, 2009, at 23:36, nate wrote: > > >> hmm, is your package selection particularly complex? In my case >> I list hundreds of packages in my %packages section I don't have >> groups and stuff. I assume your using a stock CentOS install >> and you didn't put any of

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-15 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 14, 2009, at 23:36, nate wrote: > hmm, is your package selection particularly complex? In my case > I list hundreds of packages in my %packages section I don't have > groups and stuff. I assume your using a stock CentOS install > and you didn't put any of your own 3rd party rpms in the inst

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread nate
Alfred von Campe wrote: > I waited overnight and it was still hung in the morning. My local > mirror is on the LAN, so it's not a network issue. hmm, is your package selection particularly complex? In my case I list hundreds of packages in my %packages section I don't have groups and stuff. I as

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
> How long does it hang? CentOS 5.x takes much longer to get to the > point where it is installing packages than 4.x, probably a good 3-4 > minutes more, perhaps longer if your mirror is over a WAN connection, > my mirror is on the local LAN and it does take a long time as well > though it always h

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread nate
Alfred von Campe wrote: > I've been using kickstart successfully with a local mirror going back > to CentOS 4.X. I'm trying to install CentOS 5.3 via kickstart on a > new system (which happens to be different than most other systems > I've installed on), and the install process always hangs shortl

[CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
I've been using kickstart successfully with a local mirror going back to CentOS 4.X. I'm trying to install CentOS 5.3 via kickstart on a new system (which happens to be different than most other systems I've installed on), and the install process always hangs shortly after the partitions a