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 ;)




From: "Locane" <locane@gmail.com>
To: "cobbler mailing list" <cobbler@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@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@gmail.com>
To: "cobbler mailing list" <cobbler@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@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:

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


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