On 07/06/2009 12:01 PM, Paul Company wrote:
Or ftp://, basically anything Anaconda supports.

Or you could just do "cobbler distro add" and skip import...
    

Neither works for me.
Read my original post.
After running the command you suggested,  nothing is shows after
"cobbler distro list".

Also, using "cobbler distro add" requires that you include --kernel
and --initrd and their values have to be on the local filesystem,
which is what I'm trying to avoid.

Am I missing something here?
It sounds like I should be able to do what I want, but I it's not
working for me.
I'm running on RHEL 5.1 w/ cobbler 1.6.6.
  

I suggest you just import from DVD or use cobbler distro add.

--available-as for filers does work /if/ you have the right content... and the right paths, and such, but often confuses people.

It is usually much much quicker for them to just use "cobbler distro add" than to sort it out, and there is not much lost in doing so.


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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