+1
That would be very nice indeed! :)
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:32 AM, <alastair(a)alastair-munro.com> wrote:
Hi Greg
There is a cobbler wiki where you can put guides like this. Maybe you can
do a quick cut and paste?
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Alastair Munro
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Swift <gregswift(a)gmail.com>
To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 0:36
Subject: Re: [cobbler] cobbler import fedora 21 failed
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Greg Swift <gregswift(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Estrella Zaton Martin <ezaton(a)iac.es>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to import the fedora 21 distro from rsync or dvd with:
>>
>> cobbler import --path=/mnt/iso --name=fedora21 --arch=x86_64
>>
>> but it fails with !!! TASK FAILED !!!
>>
>> After, I tried to add the distro uploaded before with:
>>
>> cobbler distro add --name=fedora21-x86_64 --ksmeta="tree=ftp://nas-
>> deploy.ll.iac.es/media/fedora/releases/21/Fedora/x86_64/os/"
>> kernel=/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/fedora21-x86_64/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
>> initrd=/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/fedora21-x86_64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
>> --arch=x86_64 --breed=redhat --os-version=fedora21
>>
>> and it seems to be ok, but if I do: cobbler distro list or cobbler
>> report, no distros appear...
>>
>> Is there anyone could have imported the fedora21 distro? how?
>>
>> Thank you and best regards,
>>
>> Estrella
>>
>
> Hi! I'm actually in the progress of writing a blog post about this
> journey :)
>
> I can't tell what iso you are using for this, so I'm just going to give
> you my summary of how i got it working. Be sure to change the arch as
> necessary for your setup:
>
> 1: Import Fedora 21 Server netinstall as your distro (same commands you
> ran above but with one of these isos:
>
>
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/21/Server/x86_64/iso/
> )
> 2: Sync the Fedora/21/Everything repository (use --mirror-locally=False
> if you can get away with it! :)
> cobbler repo add --name=fedora21-everything-64 --breed=yum --arch=x86_64
> --mirror=
>
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/21/Everything/x86_6...
> 3: Now they have to be glued together. You need to copy the .treeinfo
> and images directories from the distro into everything repo.
> cp -pr /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/fedora21/{.treeinfo,LiveOS,images}
> /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/fedora21-everything-64/
> 4: Then you need to edit the distro's tree path
> cobbler distro edit --name=fedora21-x86_64 --ksmeta=tree=http://
> @@http_server@@/cblr/repo_mirror/fedora21-everything-x86_64
>
> I came up with this at like 1am last night, so i might not have caught
> everything here. Plus there is probably a was better method. Maybe
> manually syncing the everything repo, adding the distro bits, and then
> using that to do the distro import? Would definitely leave cobbler setup
> cleaner, imho.
>
> -greg
>
For what its worth my quickly thrown up blog post just went live:
http://nytefyre.net/2015/02/kickstarting-fedora-21-workstation-with-cobbler/
-greg
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