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