scalable-file-systems package group does not exists with kickstart

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I have added the group 'scalable-file-systems' to my kickstart file. While installing using the kickstart file it says: "You have specified the group 'scalable-file-systems' should be installed. This group does not exist. Would you liike to continue or abort the installation?" does not exits.

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Hello Asela,

If you have created Kickstart profile on Red Hat Satellite then you need to confirm whether kickstart profile is enabled with Scalable File System channel or not. Because package group " scalable-file-systems " is provided only by Scalable File System channel .

If you are using kickstart created on Red Hat Satellite then you need to follow steps bellow to enable Scalable File System channel

Open Kickstart profile on Satellite webui -> Operating System -> Under " Child Channels*:" section enable check box for channel label -

rhel-x86_64-server-sfs-6

Depending on architecture of RHEL 6 Base channel you need to select respective Scalable Filesystem channel.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ashish

Hi Ashish,

The Kickstart file was manually created and hosted in a web server. There is no connection with a satellite. The packages are retrieved from the local media (installation DVD) and no external repository is used for the installation.

I also checked that the anaconda-ks.cfg file created after the manual installation have included the "scalable-file-systems", but if we use that anaconda-ks.cfg to do the installation, it gives the mentioned error.

Regards,
Asela.

anaconda-ks.cfg

# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

#version=DEVEL
install
cdrom
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --onboot no --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
rootpw  --iscrypted $6$W3GogHnE11pZRNWb$M7T8cVb.37MIXrvtDXuy0rBQWb1LQJ.u7xADvOYLbr.Pjebg.82DlO9K2jHjR24uAcjvnJjr6dFG07Itpf5bH/
firewall --service=ssh
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc Asia/Colombo
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=vda --append="crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet"
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
#clearpart --linux --drives=vda
#volgroup VolGroup --pesize=4096 pv.253002
#logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_root --vgname=VolGroup --grow --size=1024 --maxsize=51200
#logvol swap --name=lv_swap --vgname=VolGroup --grow --size=819 --maxsize=819


#part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500
#part pv.253002 --grow --size=1


%packages
@core
@scalable-file-systems
@server-policy
-xfsdump

Asela,

Is the media you are using official Red Hat media? (if so which image), or an image you have created in house? My official RHEL 6.4 media doesn't show this package group.

If you mount the iso on another server and configure it as a yum repo, does 'scalable-file-systems' show as a valid group name when running 'yum grouplist'?

Hi,

It is redhat 6.5 official DVD (rhel-server-6.5-x86_64-dvd). And the above anaconda-ks.cfg file is created by itself. It have included 'scalable-file-systems' package group.

Regards,
Asela.

I believe you will need to specify a separate repo in your kickstart file. In that web dir, you will need the repodata files to be available.

repo --name=server-stuff --baseurl=http://myserver/yum/5.50/mystuff/

Asela,

While installing system from RHEL 6.5 DVD we get option to select additional repositories where we have to select "Scalable Filesystem Support" to have scalable-file-systems package group enabled. In DVD we have separate directory called "ScalableFileSystem" which has repodata where scalable-file-systems package group is defined.

So as suggested by James you need to add command to enable repository :

repo --name=scalable-filesystem --baseurl=file://

Regards,
Ashish

Hi Ashish and James,

Thanks for the tips. Adding the repository using following line did resolved the issue.

repo --name=ScalableFileSystem --baseurl=file:///mnt/source/ScalableFileSystem/

I wonder why anconda does not include this line in the auto generated kickstart file.

Thanks and Best regards,
Mahendra.

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