Thank you for replying.

I am sharing my understanding of the operation i performed.

I configured Network installation server 169.254.1.2 and exported /export/home/agarg/imag from Server.

Now i make another machine(client ) attached to server to boot via network. Client System was able to boot via pxe and was able to download initrd and install.img images. I checked that it was able to recieve the main kickstart in stage1 of anaconda installer.

After the screen for running anaconda installer , i see below error for installation failure:-

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The following problem occurred on line 0 of the kickstart file:

Unable to open input kickstart file: Could not open/read file:///mnt/stage2/kickstart/Additional.inc

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I accessed tty2 and check the contents of mnt/stage2/, I see below contents were only present:-

$ ls mnt/stage2/ efiboot.img efidisk.img install.img pxeboot TRANS.TBL

The above is contents of my images directory present in the ISO

I was expecting that complete installation tree should be present on mnt/stgae2 just like DVD. However only images directory's contents is present.

I checked online But could not find the root cause that why images directory's contents is only present in mnt/stage2 .

I will appreciate any help in this. Is there a detailed explanation available for the nfs installation behavior apart from RHEl 6 installation guide?

Please let me know in case further information is required.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime@redhat.com wrote:

On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 17:48 +0530, anant garg wrote:

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Hi All,

Greeting for the day.

I was installation RHEL by using NFS method in a kickstart file

My kickstart includes another kickstart

Below was a snippet of my kickstart

install nfs --server=169.254.1.2 --dir=/export/home/agarg/imag

key --skip lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us

% include /mnt/stage2/kickstart/Additional.inc

%packages @base @supp @core %end

I found that during Network installation, Installation failed with Error:-

The following problem occurred on line 0 of the kickstart file:

Unable to open input kickstart file: Could not open/read file:///mnt/stage2/kickstart/Additional.inc

I login to tty2 and found that only images directory from ISO has been copied to /mnt/stage2 That is why it is not finding the kickstart.

Isn't the 169.254.1.2:/export/home/agarg/imag simply mounted to /mnt/stage2? I don't think anaconda copies anything. And that would also explain why the kickstart file is not there.

-- Vratislav Podzimek

Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic

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Hi Vratislav, All,

Thank you for responding. I am providing you more details:-

Regarding booting the Installer

1. I am using network boot and for that I am using RHEL suggested method as below:-

1. Copy the vmlinuz, initrd.img and pxelinux.0 to /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg 2. Create a default file that contains option to boot above kernel vmlinuz and initrd also with ks parameter to pass nfs location of main kickstart file 3. Mount the ISO on server and copy its contents to the directory. The directory has below folder:-

Packages --> contains packages EFI --> contaings BOOT directory isolinux --> contains isolinux.bin vmlinuz initrd.img images -> contains install.img efidisk.ing pxeboot directory repodata -> containing comps.xml kickstart --> folder containing all kickstart files

4. Export this directory via NFS.

5. After that the client system is booted over network (PXE boot) 6. After that Running anaconda message appears. 7. After the screen of running anaconda , below error occurs:-

Unable to open input kickstart file: Could not open/read file:///mnt/stage2/kickstart/Additional.inc

I am providing you snippet of kickstart file as below:-

install nfs --server=169.254.1.2 --dir=/export/home/agarg/imag

key --skip lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us

% include /mnt/stage2/kickstart/Additional.inc

%packages @base @supp @core %end

Also I want to confirm an additional query:-

Also there is a pre section in my additional kickstart file which is Additional.inc which is used to probe for system related information and store it in a file.

But I think that %pre script execution from additional kickstart file has been removed, can you please confirm. Does In RHEL6.6 installer does %pre section script executes only from the main kickstart file and not the additional included files ?

...

Try running $ ls /mnt/source

I checked the above but this directory is not present, only below two directory is present:-

mnt/stage2 mnt/runtime

and mnt/stage2 contains only contents of /export/home/agarg/imag/images directory which are below:-

install.img efidisk.ing pxeboot directory

i will appreciate any further help provided. Please let me know in case you require more information.

Thanks and regards, Anant garg

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime@redhat.com wrote:

On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 17:59 +0530, anant garg wrote:

...

Thank you for replying.

I am sharing my understanding of the operation i performed.

I configured Network installation server 169.254.1.2 and exported /export/home/agarg/imag from Server.

Now i make another machine(client ) attached to server to boot via network. Client System was able to boot via pxe and was able to download initrd and install.img images. I checked that it was able to recieve the main kickstart in stage1 of anaconda installer.

Where is the main kickstart downloaded from?

...

After the screen for running anaconda installer , i see below error for installation failure:-

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The following problem occurred on line 0 of the kickstart file:

Unable to open input kickstart file: Could not open/read file:///mnt/stage2/kickstart/Additional.inc

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...

I accessed tty2 and check the contents of mnt/stage2/, I see below contents were only present:-

$ ls mnt/stage2/ efiboot.img efidisk.img install.img pxeboot TRANS.TBL

The above is contents of my images directory present in the ISO

Can you please add the information on how you boot the installer and how your kickstarts look?

Try running $ ls /mnt/source

And see if that's the directory your additional ks file lives in or not.

-- Vratislav Podzimek

Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic

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HI,

i was able to perform Network Installation successfully.

Sharing information of what I did :-

What I changed in my kickstart was the below:-

install nfs --server=169.254.1.2 --dir=/export/home/agarg/imag

to

install nfs --server=169.254.1.2 --dir=/export/home/agarg/imag/install.img

Also On the NFS server side, I kept install.img on the ISO tree as a separate entity on ISO tree.

Although I do not know a reason that why install.img is given as an arguement to dir, Because the below docuement says in case of nfs installation.

https://github.com/rhinstaller/pykickstart/blob/master/docs/kickstart-docs.r...

--dir=

Directory containing the Packages/ directory of the installation tree. If doing an ISO install, this directory must also contain images/install.img.

Nonetheless Thanks for looking into the issue.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:48 PM, anant garg garginfo158@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All,

Greeting for the day.

I was installation RHEL by using NFS method in a kickstart file

My kickstart includes another kickstart

Below was a snippet of my kickstart

install nfs --server=169.254.1.2 --dir=/export/home/agarg/imag

key --skip lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us

% include /mnt/stage2/kickstart/Additional.inc

%packages @base @supp @core %end

I found that during Network installation, Installation failed with Error:-

The following problem occurred on line 0 of the kickstart file:

Unable to open input kickstart file: Could not open/read file:///mnt/stage2/kickstart/Additional.inc

I login to tty2 and found that only images directory from ISO has been copied to /mnt/stage2 That is why it is not finding the kickstart.

I can not understand this behavior.

I tried the same installation by CD and /mnt/stage2 was having kickstart and complete iso tree.

Can any one please help me understand this behavior and solution for nfs method of installation of above on RHEL 6.6?

Please let me know in case you require more information

Thanks and Regards, Anant Garg