From: "Locane" <locane@gmail.com>
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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@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!FlossyFrom: "Locane" <locane@gmail.com>
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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@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/HowToPxeAnyLiveCdInitially 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:For atomic, I tried to use: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--Make It So Number One
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