On 06/29/2009 06:26 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
Robert L Cochran wrote:
> On 06/29/2009 04:55 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
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>> Robert L Cochran wrote:
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>>> On 06/29/2009 10:25 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
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>>>>> I should have used
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>>>>> cobbler import --path=/var/www/html/fedorainstall --name=Fedora11
>>>>> --arch=i386
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>>>> Don't do this. Use either a mounted DVD or an rsync mirror.
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>>>> --Michael
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>>> I'm a little confused. That path is indeed a mounted DVD...it's loop
>>> mounted to /var/www/html/fedorainstall. Am I still doing this wrong?
>>>
>>> Bob
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>> Are you sure? Why would you mount a DVD under /var/www/html and not /mnt ?
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> Oh, I see. Well if you mount the DVD under the web server's document
> root, like this:
>
> mount -o loop /home/rlc/Download/Fedora-11-i386/Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso
> /var/www/html/fedorainstall
>
> Then of course you can install Fedora 11 to a machine over the network,
> using the "medialess install" method discussed in the Fedora 11
> installation guide.
>
If you are using Cobbler, the whole purpose of such an application to do
network installs, you should be using cobbler's instructions and not the
Fedora 11 media guide.
Just go with the Cobbler documentation.
> Also you can see a list of files and access the
> entire document tree of the DVD and download those files over http if
> you use this method. The Cobbler wiki simply suggests loop mounting the
> DVD, the wiki doesn't say where exactly to mount it on. So I mounted it
> on /var/www/html/fedorainstall as I was accustomed to, then I fed
> cobbler this incantation:
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The import command will copy the content into web-readable space. It
uses /var/www/cobbler, in fact, and already has Apache configured to
serve content up out of this location.
It also offers up numerous other services, such as a dynamic kickstart
templating engine, that are served dynamically, not out of files.
Anyway, the point of Cobbler is to be glue
around things you need to do for installation purposes, so you don't
need to know how to set those things up yourself.... this is one of
those things.
> cobbler import --path=/var/www/html/fedorainstall --name=Fedora11 --arch=i386
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> and that did indeed seem to generate quite a lot of cobbler output to the terminal. I
can post screenshots or logfiles if those exist of what I'm talking about if I'm
still being confusing.
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It posts a lot of output because it's creating the network accessible
copy of the tree for you. IMHO it's not a good idea to leave ISOs
mounted in webroot. That all being said, where you mounted it is
unimportant, your import probably worked fine, in which case you can
unmount it and will be good to go.
> Bob
Okay, thanks. No I am not following the Fedora Installation Guide in
order to set up cobbler -- although it might be a good idea to have a
chapter on cobbler in that guide. I mentioned the guide to explain why I
mounted the DVD on the web server's document root. I simply picked that
mount point, /var/www/html/fedorainstall because it is a habitual mount
point I use and the cobbler instructions didn't specify a mount point
for the `cobbler import --path[...] action.
You might want to take a look at this web page I put up that shows more
detail about what I am seeing over here and what the log messages are
saying. Like you say, I am pretty sure that the cobbler import statement
worked properly.
http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/cobbler_import_v1.html
Many thanks and I apologise if I'm confusing you and others.
Bob