CentOS - Jan 2021 - Kickstart "Error setting up base repository"

Alex Kirk wrote:
> I recently built my first CentOS kickstart config on a CentOS 7 system; it
> I've taken the anaconda-ks.cfg file created from a successful manual
> install (of both regular 8 and Stream), placed it on my DVD ISO, and
> wrapped things back up like I was doing with CentOS 7. I'm successfully
> beginning the installation, but running into "Error setting up base
> repository" - despite having not touched either the filesystem
structure of
> the ISO, or the generated kickstart file that points at my repos.
I don't know if it's connected, but I had a problem (with a similar
errors) when installing 8.3.2011 over httpd using a copy of the contents of the
8.3.2011 iso

My kickstart file contained:

 url --url="http://distro/CentOS/8.3.2011"
 repo --name="AppStream"
--baseurl=http://disto/CentOS/8.3.2011/AppStream

This was a copy of what I has done with 8.1.1911 - which worked OK

I couldn't get 8.3.2011 to install, until I hacked things so the kickstart
contained:

 url --url="http://distro/CentOS/8.3.2011/BaseOS"
 repo --name="AppStream"
--baseurl=http://disto/CentOS/8.3.2011/AppStream

but I also had to put a symlink in the BaseOS subdir of:

 images -> ../images

i.e. it worked with 8.1.1911 but not 8.3.2011 (I never tried 8.2.2004)

I don't know if this is a bug or I'm doing something wrong?

James Pearson

So adding on:

repo --name="BaseOS"
--baseurl=file:///run/install/sources/mount-0000-cdrom/BaseOS

...didn't help at all. Neither did adding the symlink out of the BaseOS
directory to the images subdirectory above it.

I did notice this time, however, that when I click into the "Installation
Source" button of the UI where the erorr is, if I click on the repos being
read from my Kickstart file, there's a small error at the bottom of the
page that says "Repository name conflicts with internal repository
name".
That seems weird, since again I'm basing this on a successful manual
install - why would that write a conflicting repo name to the config?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:52 PM James Pearson <james-p at
moving-picture.com>
wrote:
> Alex Kirk wrote:
> > I recently built my first CentOS kickstart config on a CentOS 7
system;
> it
> > I've taken the anaconda-ks.cfg file created from a successful
manual
> > install (of both regular 8 and Stream), placed it on my DVD ISO, and
> > wrapped things back up like I was doing with CentOS 7. I'm
successfully
> > beginning the installation, but running into "Error setting up
base
> > repository" - despite having not touched either the filesystem
structure
> of
> > the ISO, or the generated kickstart file that points at my repos.
>
> I don't know if it's connected, but I had a problem (with a similar
> errors) when installing 8.3.2011 over httpd using a copy of the contents of
> the 8.3.2011 iso
>
> My kickstart file contained:
>
>  url --url="http://distro/CentOS/8.3.2011"
>  repo --name="AppStream"
--baseurl=http://disto/CentOS/8.3.2011/AppStream
>
> This was a copy of what I has done with 8.1.1911 - which worked OK
>
> I couldn't get 8.3.2011 to install, until I hacked things so the
kickstart
> contained:
>
>  url --url="http://distro/CentOS/8.3.2011/BaseOS"
>  repo --name="AppStream"
--baseurl=http://disto/CentOS/8.3.2011/AppStream
>
> but I also had to put a symlink in the BaseOS subdir of:
>
>  images -> ../images
>
> i.e. it worked with 8.1.1911 but not 8.3.2011 (I never tried 8.2.2004)
>
> I don't know if this is a bug or I'm doing something wrong?
>
> James Pearson
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