Michael DeHaan wrote:
Matt S Unix Administrator wrote:
How might one import RHEL 4 into cobbler from the installation media.
Such that the installation can be completed over the network. I've got a
functional cobbler install already with several distributions.
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All you have to do is copy over the files from each CD into a
directory somewhere on your cobbler server. You'll want to preserve
the directory layout that was on the CD.
A good place to put this tree is
/var/lib/cobbler/localmirror/rhel4$type$arch, though if you don't want
to take up space in /var, you could just create a symlink to that
point and put the files somewhere else. (Note: If not running
Cobbler 0.3.6, this would require manually configuring Apache to
follow symlinks, 0.3.5 sets this up for you automatically). The name
"localmirror" is special, if you name it something else, cobbler will
probably delete it for you, thinking it's content that shouldn't live
in /var/lib/cobbler.
These files really don't have to be on the cobbler server, either.
In my setup, I just symlink a path to the kickstart trees that Red Hat
stores on NFS shares, i.e. /mnt/foo/something/RHEL4/AS/tree. Samba
would technically work too if you are so inclined.
With the content already accessible from /var/lib/cobbler, you just
use the following URL in your kickstart file:
url --url=http://$server/cobbler/localmirror/RHEL4/AS/i386/tree
(for cobbler 0.3.6, use "cobbler_track" instead of "cobbler" in the
URL if you want to use kickstart tracking)
--Michael
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Sorry for the incomplete follow-up. You asked about "import", which
probably means how do I create cobbler distribution and profile entries
in cobbler, as well as just how to do I get the kickstart tree copied over.
after doing the above to copy the kickstart tree, do the following.
Your kernel/initrd paths might be slightly different:
cobbler distro add --name=rhel4asi386
--kernel=/var/www/cobbler/localmirror/RHEL4/AS/i386/tree/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
--initrd=/var/www/cobbler/localmirror/RHEL4/AS/i386/tree/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
cobbler profile add --name=rhel4asi386foo --distro=rhel4asi386
--kickstart=/path/to/kickstart.ks
(with the kickstart file of course including the URL as referenced above)
Adding a "import from ISO's" feature sounds like a good idea for future
revisions.
If anyone feeling creative wants to play around with action_import.py
and add this feature and submit a patch, be my guest.
If not, I'll put it in the queue. It would be rather nice to have.
--Michael
