[Novalug] Livecd-tools erroring out

Jeremy Hoel jthoel@gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 10:55:30 EST 2011


Quick question

Do you have the network configured before it gets to these lines?
Either as DHCP or static?


On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:48 PM, James Swanson <swanson.james@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use livecd-creator to build a small, pxe-bootable system
> image.  I am using CentOS 5.7.  After installation of the necessary extras,
> I try running livecd-creator against two kickstart files.  It errors out and
> stops after these lines:
>
> Error creating Live CD : Unable to download from repo : Cannot retrieve
> repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: a-base. Please verify its
> path and try again
> Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no attribute
> 'sysconf'" in <bound method LiveCDYum.__del__ of
> <imgcreate.yuminst.LiveCDYum object at 0x1c0d1c50>> ignored
>
>
> The repo lines in my kickstart files are as follows:
>
> repo --name=a-base
> --baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/$basearch
> repo --name=a-updates
> --baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/$basearch
> repo --name=a-extras
> --baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/extras/$basearch
>
> These lines should work, since they came with the livecd-tools rpm.  Can
> anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  Google has a lot of useless posts
> about this with no answers.  Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
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