Ok I think you might be confused. A livecd's purpose is to load in to
memory and be an operating system to work with temporarily - many
installers are "live" OS's, but that doesn't make them livecd's.
If you're just trying to install an OS to a disk, and don't have a pre-made
livecd image you want to temporarily load via cobbler, that's a different
operation / instruction set.
My tip is for if you have a pre-made Live OS image that you want to load -
I suppose that could be an installer, but that's typically not the way to
do that. I make my boot.iso images with the Lorax package
(livemedia-creator) and then import them in to cobbler with "cobbler distro
add", and add that kernel parameter.
I don't know what Atomic is. If it's an OS you're trying to install, then
what I've said won't help. If it's a self-contained image that you boot to,
then it might.
On Oct 13, 2015 7:57 AM, "Scot Floess" <sfloess(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Locane,
Awesome - thanks for the help! I will try this later today...
Quick question, does that perform an actual unattended install or does a
GUI start up as if I wanted to boot via CD?
The reason I'm asking is I'm trying to use KOAN to kick start this
unattended (as in not needing to manually intervene).
Anyway - will try this here shortly... I did have "root=/boot.iso" (well
used the iso name I imported) but as mentioned previously, I'm trying to
use a kickstart (ultimately I'll be putting in some additional templating
stuff which is why I am trying to do this in the fashion I described)...
Appreciate it!
Flossy
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*Subject: *Re: [cobbler] Has anyone successfully imported an Atomic image
and used KOAN to install a VM?
Hey Scot, I have a working CentOS 7 livecd and didn't need to edit the
kickstart, just the kernerl parameters. See below from my query to this
list about a month ago. Maybe it will help.
It worked after I tweaked it - I had to add the kernel parameter
"root=live:/boot.iso" to the PXE config line, where "boot.iso" is the
name
of the original ISO that livemedia-creator made before getting PXE
converted.
For others finding this on the internets, I had to make a profile called
"livecd" with the distro, and then I had to add the kernel option to the
profile with the following command:
cobbler profile edit --name livecd --kopts="root=live:/boot.iso"
On Oct 13, 2015 6:28 AM, "Scot Floess" <sfloess(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have been trying now for quite some time to import an Atomic ISO into
> Cobbler. I followed the directions here:
>
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd
>
> Initially I ran into a number of "issues" (mostly with my understanding -
> or lack thereof) and decided to try to import a live CentOS image (vs
> atomic). I more or less got that working with KOAN, but in trying to use
> Atomic I am stumped on what to put in my kickstart for the "--url" option.
> With the normal CentOS live, I am using this:
> url --url=http://mirrors.sonic.net/centos/7/os/x86_64
>
> For atomic, I tried to use:
> url --url=http://mirrors.sonic.net/centos/7/atomic/x86_64
>
> Apparently its not an install tree.
>
> I'm 100% certain I am doing something completely wrong here - but was
> wondering what folks may have done or if they had any luck importing Atomic
> ISOs? Without the --url in my atomic.ks, it won't install with this error
> "Cannot find install source in kickstart file, aborting."
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Flossy
>
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