Joe G wrote:
Just as an update.
I think my problem has more to do with the anaconda then cobbler.
What I have been doing is listing all the rpms on the dvd individually in the kickstart file, including the rpms in the Workstation directory.
When I do a network install, it works fine because the repos are set up and it can get all the files.
When I try to do a standalone install, with all the rpms listed individually, it can not find any of the rpms in the Workstation directory. It looks like anaconda is hard coded to only look in the Client directory.
Anaconda is not hard coded. I suspect you'd have to specify more repo directives with "file:///" that reference the extra CD content. Really the standalone stuff should probably be documented that it only handles base packages. If this is in a office environment, though, there's really no reason to not use "cobbler buildiso" in normal network install mode.
Thus far I have had trouble setting IP addresses and having the installs work, because the machine are to be set up in other offices using different network schemes.
This is definitely not a Cobbler problem; you'll probably want different kickstarts.
Thanks for your help. I'll let you know my solution when I come up with one.
Joe
--- On Mon, 4/27/09, James Cammarata jimi@sngx.net wrote:
From: James Cammarata jimi@sngx.net Subject: Re: standalone To: "Joe G" jophey@yahoo.com Cc: "cobbler mailing list" cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 11:16 PM
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:19:10 -0700 (PDT), Joe G jophey@yahoo.com wrote:
James,
Thanks for the reply.
The command I use to make the iso is"cobbler buildiso --distro=RH5.3client-x86_64 --standalone"
I tried it with --source/path to iso with the same
result.
Thanks
Joe
Try specifying the --tempdir as well, and after the build is done look at the contents of that directory. Also make sure that you're using an official release ISO and not a custom made one. I know we've had issues with people using custom rolled CD's before.
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