Eric Raymond wrote:
Hello,
I have been having an issue with importing to distro from CD/DVD or
from an existing repository. When I import an x86_64 distro, pre RHEL
5/CentOS5, etc..it creates a distro/profile for xen-i386.. It seems
strange that it would be interpreted as Xen instead of just 64bit. It
does install the correct setup when kickstarted, but it seems like a
strange occurrence...
When you import a tree, cobbler does a scan against that tree to find
out what distros are there. Since Xen paravirt kernels are different,
they are created as seperate distros.
If you are importing an existing directory, most likely what happened is
that your directory did not contain a path that explicitly said
"x86_64", so Cobbler assumed it was i386. This isn't really a problem
as you can rename the distribution yourself... "cobbler profile rename"
then "cobbler distro rename".
Also, I was wondering if there is a documented way to setup the distro
without importing media, since I currently have a massive
repository/tree for my installations, and dont want to add duplicated
data on my system.
There are two ways.
One is to use "cobbler import --name=blah --path=blah
--available-as=nfs://blah:/path/where/blah/is/mounted".
This will do the same thing as the regular import but will know not to
mirror the data, which seems especially well suited to your existing
configuration.
The --available-as must point to the directory that corresponds to what
was given to path, exactly, as that variable will be inserted into the
distro object
to indicate where the network install source for that distro is. This
can either be an NFS location (as above), or an existing http:// or
ftp:// location. Giving
this value allows the variable "$tree" to be interpreted in the
kickstart file as intended, and getting it wrong will result in a Window
poping up during install
that indicates the install source was not found. However, if you do get
it wrong, it's pretty easy to change later (just do a cobbler distro
edit and change
the --kopts parameters to reassign 'tree').
The alternative is to do "cobbler distro add" and "cobbler profile add"
manually, which is a bit less automated, and is the way things were done
before cobbler
import had the --available-as option.
Thanks,
Eric
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