On Wednesday 11 Apr 2012 11:13:52 Jörgen Maas wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Michael Gliwinski <
Michael.Gliwinski(a)henderson-group.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> Yip, that's what I thought, but is anyone actually using `cobbler distro
> add`
> directly? From list of accepted options I see it needs kernel and initrd
> but
> surely more that that is needed to boot the installer?
Hi,
Yes, i'm using the manual "distro add" method and never use the Cobbler
distro importers at all. I manually copy the kernel/initrd onto the cobbler
servers, create the distro and corresponding profiles. In my experience the
kernel and initrd are all that's really needed. All our repo' s are hosted
on a (non-Cobbler) separate server, so we refer to that in the
kickstart/preseeds/autoyast files. So, basically we use Cobbler only to
manage the pxeboot, kickstart templating and iso building features.
Thanks Jörgen, I'll give that a try too.
Do you know where is it getting the installer image from (the anaconda
install.img, or whatever it's called) when booting? Or how does it know where
to get it? :)
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