On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Greg Swift <gregswift@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Estrella Zaton Martin <ezaton@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_64/os/

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