On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 02:07:15PM +0100, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
Hello,
I build live images of RHEL/CentOS 7 with traditional tools [1] and I am wondering if I could use Lorax utilities to do the same. I understand that RHEL7 has dated Anaconda and Yum, but maybe I do things wrong:
[lzap@lzapx foreman-discovery-image]$ sudo livemedia-creator --make-iso --iso /mnt/data/isos/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1511.iso --ks fdi-image.ks 2016-03-01 13:42:20,604: disk_size = 1026MiB 2016-03-01 13:42:20,605: disk_img = /var/tmp/disk7vld5vjj.img 2016-03-01 13:42:20,605: install_log = /home/lzap/work/foreman-discovery-image/virt-install.log 2016-03-01 13:42:20,638: Running virt-install. 2016-03-01 13:42:21,532: Processing logs from ('127.0.0.1', 53448) ... 2016-03-01 13:42:51,827: Installation error detected. See logfile. 2016-03-01 13:42:51,828: Shutting down LiveOS-0b814a3b-331d-4c21-9560-dd8f291557be Domain LiveOS-0b814a3b-331d-4c21-9560-dd8f291557be destroyed
Domain LiveOS-0b814a3b-331d-4c21-9560-dd8f291557be has been undefined
2016-03-01 13:42:52,093: Shutting down log processing 2016-03-01 13:42:52,093: unmounting the iso 2016-03-01 13:42:52,125: Install failed: virt_install failed on line: 12:42:46,593 CRIT anaconda: Traceback (most recent call last):#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/simpleline/base.py", line 348, in _mainloop#012 prompt = last_screen.prompt(self._screens[-1][1])#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/hubs/summary.py", line 85, in prompt#012 raise CmdlineError(errtxt)#012#012CmdlineError: The following mandatory spokes are not completed:#012Installation Destination 2016-03-01 13:42:52,126: Removing bad disk image 2016-03-01 13:42:52,126: ERROR: Image creation failed: virt_install failed on line: 12:42:46,593 CRIT anaconda: Traceback (most recent call last):#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/simpleline/base.py", line 348, in _mainloop#012 prompt = last_screen.prompt(self._screens[-1][1])#012#012 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/ui/tui/hubs/summary.py", line 85, in prompt#012 raise CmdlineError(errtxt)#012#012CmdlineError: The following mandatory spokes are not completed:#012Installation Destination
That's anaconda's way of telling you that the disk setup didn't work. You should probably read this:
https://rhinstaller.github.io/lorax/livemedia-creator.html#kickstarts
which covers converting live spin kickstarts and talks about things that are required. In general your kickstart should work unattended when running it with Anaconda in a VM with the boot.iso.
You should also look at the example kickstarts in /usr/share/doc/lorax/
[lzap@lzapx foreman-discovery-image]$ cat fdi-image.ks | paste http://sprunge.us/dQWA
Looks like you are missing:
clearpart --all --initlabel
It starts out with a blank disk, without the clearpart it will not use the blank disk to prevent accidental data loss on disks with unknown partitioning.
You should also add the 'shutdown' command to the kickstart to make sure it shuts down the VM when it is finished.
Good luck!