Locane,
No I get the Live CD stuff and its purpose :) I was having problems importing/KOAN
installs of CentOS/Fedora/RHEL Atomic ISOs and thought I'd try to use a
"normal" live CD first then try the aforementioned.
Atomic is a stripped down OS and works very well with Docker - but the ISOs are just like
a Live CD and I'm averse to doing manual pt and clicky installs ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Locane" <locane(a)gmail.com>
To: "cobbler mailing list" <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 11:08:53 AM
Subject: Re: [cobbler] Has anyone successfully imported an Atomic image and
used KOAN to install a VM?
Ok I think you might be confused. A livecd's purpose is to load
in to memory
and be an operating system to work with temporarily - many installers are
"live" OS's, but that doesn't make them livecd's.
If you're just trying to install an OS to a disk, and don't
have a pre-made
livecd image you want to temporarily load via cobbler, that's a different
operation / instruction set.
My tip is for if you have a pre-made Live OS image that you want to
load - I
suppose that could be an installer, but that's typically not the way to do
that. I make my boot.iso images with the Lorax package (livemedia-creator)
and then import them in to cobbler with "cobbler distro add", and add that
kernel parameter.
I don't know what Atomic is. If it's an OS you're trying
to install, then
what I've said won't help. If it's a self-contained image that you boot to,
then it might.
On Oct 13, 2015 7:57 AM, "Scot Floess" < sfloess(a)redhat.com > wrote:
> Locane,
> Awesome - thanks for the help! I will try this later today...
> Quick question, does that perform an actual unattended install
or does a
> GUI
> start up as if I wanted to boot via CD?
> The reason I'm asking is I'm trying to use KOAN to kick
start this
> unattended
> (as in not needing to manually intervene).
> Anyway - will try this here shortly... I did have
"root=/boot.iso" (well
> used
> the iso name I imported) but as mentioned previously, I'm trying to use a
> kickstart (ultimately I'll be putting in some additional templating stuff
> which is why I am trying to do this in the fashion I described)...
> Appreciate it!
> Flossy
> > From: "Locane" < locane(a)gmail.com >
>
> > To: "cobbler mailing list" < cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org >
>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:48:12 AM
>
> > Subject: Re: [cobbler] Has anyone successfully imported an Atomic image
> > and
> > used KOAN to install a VM?
>
> > Hey Scot, I have a working CentOS 7 livecd and didn't
need to edit the
> > kickstart, just the kernerl parameters. See below from my query to this
> > list
> > about a month ago. Maybe it will help.
>
> > It worked after I tweaked it - I had to add the kernel
parameter
> > "root=live:/boot.iso" to the PXE config line, where
"boot.iso" is the
> > name
> > of the original ISO that livemedia-creator made before getting PXE
> > converted.
>
> > For others finding this on the internets, I had to make a
profile called
> > "livecd" with the distro, and then I had to add the kernel option to
the
> > profile with the following command:
>
> > cobbler profile edit --name livecd
--kopts="root=live:/boot.iso"
>
> > On Oct 13, 2015 6:28 AM, "Scot Floess" <
sfloess(a)redhat.com > wrote:
>
> > > All,
> >
>
> > > I have been trying now for quite some time to import
an Atomic ISO into
> > > Cobbler. I followed the directions here:
> > >
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd
> >
>
> > > Initially I ran into a number of "issues"
(mostly with my understanding
> > > -
> > > or
> > > lack thereof) and decided to try to import a live CentOS image (vs
> > > atomic).
> > > I more or less got that working with KOAN, but in trying to use Atomic
> > > I
> > > am
> > > stumped on what to put in my kickstart for the "--url" option.
With the
> > > normal CentOS live, I am using this:
> >
>
> > > url --url=
http://mirrors.sonic.net/centos/7/os/x86_64
> >
>
> > > For atomic, I tried to use:
> >
>
> > > url --url=
http://mirrors.sonic.net/centos/7/atomic/x86_64
> >
>
> > > Apparently its not an install tree.
> >
>
> > > I'm 100% certain I am doing something completely
wrong here - but was
> > > wondering what folks may have done or if they had any luck importing
> > > Atomic
> > > ISOs? Without the --url in my atomic.ks, it won't install with this
> > > error
> > > "Cannot find install source in kickstart file, aborting."
> >
>
> > > Thanks!
> >
>
> > > Flossy
> >
>
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