On 07/06/2009 01:23 PM, Paul Company wrote:
Michael,

  
No,  you can use http as well:

# cobbler import --path=/mnt/cobbler_f11_iso --available-as=http://url
--name=f11
    

Isn't this what my example shows, but my example doesn't work.
Here's exactly what I do, can you give me the correct line that should
work using http.

  

I didn't know that your content on the filesystem is correct, hence why I cannot tell that your example is correct.


On "myserver1" I mounted CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso on /media
# mount -o loop /usr/distros/iso/CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso /media
and I make /media available via Apache - http://myserver1/media/
Then on "myserver2" I run
# mkdir -p /distros/CentOS-5.3/x86_64
# cobbler import --path=/distros/CentOS-5.3/x86_64
--available-as=http://myserver1/media
--name=CentOS-5.3-x86_64
  

If that is the full and complete root of the DVD, it /should/ work, yes.

Seems like it is not... though as this is a rather hard thing to debug remotely I am increasingly in favor of deprecating that support
and suggesting folks use "cobbler distro add" if they don't want to mirror things through cobbler import, and make import be the way to go for people who do want cobbler to help set things up.

Otherwise there really isn't that much that import is doing for you...


Aren't you saying that this line should work? It looks like the one
you gave above.
Can you give me a working line ("cobbler import" or "cobbler distro
add" + "cobbler profile add") that works with http.

Paul



On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Michael DeHaan<mdehaan@redhat.com> wrote:
  
On 07/06/2009 11:27 AM, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote:

Paul Company wrote:

What's the case?

That NFS is the only supported "access method" for adding a distro
without copying the contents locally?

Paul



No,  you can use http as well:

# cobbler import --path=/mnt/cobbler_f11_iso --available-as=http://url
--name=f11


Or ftp://, basically anything Anaconda supports.

Or you could just do "cobbler distro add" and skip import... which is just
some basic automation around those commands (cobbler distro add / cobbler
profile add) anyway.

--Michael



On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Simon Woolsgrove<simon@woolsgrove.com>
wrote:


--- pjcster@gmail.com wrote:


From: Paul Company <pjcster@gmail.com>
To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org>
Subject: Re: Adding a Distribution without copying the contents over?
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 23:05:47 -0700


When you say "see them" you mean "ability to access them via a
transport protocol" or what I liked to call an "access method". NFS is
just one type of "access method". Wouldn't it be good to support http,
https, ftp, rsync, ssh. Have you ever tried to NFS mount something on
the Internet.


If you see my original post, I thought "--available-as=nfs://etc."
would do as you described, but it doesn't.


So what is the difference between using --available-as=nfs:// and NFS
mounting the path and then using import on the nfs mount point?


Paul


I think this is the case

 --available-as points to the location rather than importing the entire
tree, which I think you want, vs the latter which would import the entire
tree.

Cobbler creates a ks_meta value tree which is substitues (in the example ks
for this path)

>From your post

# mkdir -p /distros/CentOS-5.3/x86_64
# cobbler import --path=/distros/CentOS-5.3/x86_64 --arch=x86_64
--name=CentOS-5.3-x86_64 \
                       --available-as=nfs://myserver1:/media
or
# cobbler import --path=/distros/CentOS-5.3/x86_64 --arch=x86_64
--name=CentOS-5.3-x86_64 \
                       --available-as=http://myserver1/media

Does /distros/CentOS-5.3/x86_64 have an actual copy of the media, as cobbler
still needs to find the boot initrd, kernel, yum repo's etc ?

It should probably give a message that it does not find anything...

As others have pointed you do not have to use import and could use
distro/profile and use your own ks_meta variables to locate the data tree
whci can be compeltely seperate from the cobbler server if thats what you
want.

Cheers,
Simon



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