On Friday 06 Apr 2012 16:37:21 James Cammarata wrote:
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Michael Gliwinski
> The reason I'm looking for this is `cobbler import` only accepts local
> paths or rsync and I can't use rsync due to a restrictive proxy. I
> don't normally download ISOs as I have no use for them and it seems to
> me the workflow of downloading ISOs just for import would be more
> complicated and take longer then fetching data from the mirror directly.
You're going to need the ISO anyway for an import, so doing it
manually won't buy you anything. There are a lot of files required
outside of the packages in the repo.
OK, I thought maybe only a couple of files apart from kernel and initrd are
needed so I was planning to compile a list, download them into a temp dir and
then import from that temp dir.
I'm downloading the ISOs to get a better idea on what's needed. BTW, do you
know if the netinst ISOs are usually enough (for e.g. CentOS or Debian)?
But, for the record, import is basically a wrapper around the
following
steps:
cobbler distro add
Yip, that's what I thought, but is anyone actually using `cobbler distro add`
directly? From list of accepted options I see it needs kernel and initrd but
surely more that that is needed to boot the installer?
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