On 07/02/2009 04:42 PM, Léon Keijser wrote:
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 16:27 -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
  
Looks normal to me here too.   You might want to look and see if there
were any errors during the import, or might want to retry it (bad
mirror, maybe?).   Could also be a network hiccup, not sure.
    

No errors while importing. And just tried the import again for the
second time (after removing the entire distro).

  
5.3 works happily 99.999% of the time I believe, else we would hear
about it (loudly, in fact), so it should be something like the above.
    

Unfortunately(?) everything works fine if i change the system's profile
(actually its parent) to use the imported CentOS profile. It just
doesn't work when i change it to RHEL.
  

This doesn't quite make any sense to me, as in we've installed EL3 lots of times.   Generally a CentOS tree does not have split repos on the install media though, so it would naturally be a little different.

The import was from a mounted 5.3 DVD image?

Could there be a proxy in the way (long shot, but I mistrust potential for cached metadata).

Perhaps you might want to try the Anaconda Monitoring feature (anamon, documented on the Wiki) to try to extract logs, or otherwise just visit the machine while it is installing and see if you have any more on the error consoles.

--Michael