Frank,
Please do not take what I wrote the wrong way, I am trying to help :)
In order to proceed we need to know how you plan on installing the OSs via
cobbler. Are you planning to PXE boot or koan? These are realistic
questions that need to be answered to help you configure cobbler.
It sounds like you will be using PXE boot which would require a DHCP
server as well as a TFTP server. I run both services on my cobbler server.
For PXE you will need to install and configure a TFTP (I use
tftp-server-0.49-5.fc12.i686) server, and syslinux. I also have
dhcp-4.1.1-13.fc12.i686 installed for DHCPD purposes. Note you can run
DHCPD on a separate server but it is recommended to run TFTP on the
cobbler server.
Once these two services are in place you should be able to-do a cobbler
sync which will build all the required PXE bits and prices. If everything
is configured properly (dhcpd / tftp) you should be able to PXE boot a
server and install from cobbler.
-Ron
Hi Ronald!
Thanks for your response.
To clarify -- I was only saying that *I* do not know what the next
step is, not that there is a problem with the Cobbler install. I
simply do not know what to do now, after I did the import of CentOS
distributions .... I think the next step would be the same, whatever
distribution I would want to install on any server. Maybe it is so
obvious to you that you can't see why I have a problem at this point.
Thanks,
Frank
.........
cobbler check
The following potential problems were detected:
#0: One or more kickstart templates references default password
'cobbler' and should be changed for security reasons: /etc/cobbler
/sample.ks, /etc/cobbler/legacy.ks, /etc/cobbler/sample_end.ks
.........
# cobbler report
distro : CentOS48-32-bit-i386
breed : redhat
os version : rhel4
architecture : i386
initrd :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS48-32-bit/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
kernel :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS48-32-bit/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
ks metadata : {'tree':
'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/CentOS48-32-bit-i386'}
owners : ['admin']
distro : CentOS48-32-bit-xen-i386
breed : redhat
os version : rhel4
architecture : i386
initrd :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS48-32-bit/images/xen/initrd.img
kernel :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS48-32-bit/images/xen/vmlinuz
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
ks metadata : {'tree':
'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/CentOS48-32-bit-xen-i386'}
owners : ['admin']
distro : CentOS48-64-bit-x86_64
breed : redhat
os version : rhel4
architecture : x86_64
initrd :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS48-64-bit/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
kernel :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS48-64-bit/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
ks metadata : {'tree':
'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/CentOS48-64-bit-x86_64'}
owners : ['admin']
distro : CentOS48-64-bit-xen-x86_64
breed : redhat
os version : rhel4
architecture : x86_64
initrd :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS48-64-bit/images/xen/initrd.img
kernel :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS48-64-bit/images/xen/vmlinuz
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
ks metadata : {'tree':
'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/CentOS48-64-bit-xen-x86_64'}
owners : ['admin']
distro : CentOS54-32-bit-i386
breed : redhat
os version : rhel5
architecture : i386
initrd :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS54-32-bit/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
kernel :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS54-32-bit/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
ks metadata : {'tree':
'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/CentOS54-32-bit-i386'}
owners : ['admin']
distro : CentOS54-32-bit-xen-i386
breed : redhat
os version : rhel5
architecture : i386
initrd :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS54-32-bit/images/xen/initrd.img
kernel :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS54-32-bit/images/xen/vmlinuz
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
ks metadata : {'tree':
'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/CentOS54-32-bit-xen-i386'}
owners : ['admin']
distro : CentOS54-64-bit-x86_64
breed : redhat
os version : rhel5
architecture : x86_64
initrd :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS54-64-bit/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
kernel :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS54-64-bit/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
ks metadata : {'tree':
'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/CentOS54-64-bit-x86_64'}
owners : ['admin']
distro : CentOS54-64-bit-xen-x86_64
breed : redhat
os version : rhel5
architecture : x86_64
initrd :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS54-64-bit/images/xen/initrd.img
kernel :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS54-64-bit/images/xen/vmlinuz
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
ks metadata : {'tree':
'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/CentOS54-64-bit-xen-x86_64'}
owners : ['admin']
profile : CentOS48-32-bit-i386
distro : CentOS48-32-bit-i386
dhcp tag : default
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
kickstart : /etc/cobbler/legacy.ks
ks metadata : {}
owners : ['admin']
repos : []
server : <<inherit>>
virt bridge : xenbr0
virt cpus : 1
virt file size : 5
virt path :
virt ram : 512
virt type : qemu
profile : CentOS48-32-bit-xen-i386
distro : CentOS48-32-bit-xen-i386
dhcp tag : default
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
kickstart : /etc/cobbler/legacy.ks
ks metadata : {}
owners : ['admin']
repos : []
server : <<inherit>>
virt bridge : xenbr0
virt cpus : 1
virt file size : 5
virt path :
virt ram : 512
virt type : xenpv
profile : CentOS48-64-bit-x86_64
distro : CentOS48-64-bit-x86_64
dhcp tag : default
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
kickstart : /etc/cobbler/legacy.ks
ks metadata : {}
owners : ['admin']
repos : []
server : <<inherit>>
virt bridge : xenbr0
virt cpus : 1
virt file size : 5
virt path :
virt ram : 512
virt type : qemu
profile : CentOS48-64-bit-xen-x86_64
distro : CentOS48-64-bit-xen-x86_64
dhcp tag : default
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
kickstart : /etc/cobbler/legacy.ks
ks metadata : {}
owners : ['admin']
repos : []
server : <<inherit>>
virt bridge : xenbr0
virt cpus : 1
virt file size : 5
virt path :
virt ram : 512
virt type : xenpv
profile : CentOS54-32-bit-i386
distro : CentOS54-32-bit-i386
dhcp tag : default
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
kickstart : /etc/cobbler/sample.ks
ks metadata : {}
owners : ['admin']
repos : []
server : <<inherit>>
virt bridge : xenbr0
virt cpus : 1
virt file size : 5
virt path :
virt ram : 512
virt type : qemu
profile : CentOS54-32-bit-xen-i386
distro : CentOS54-32-bit-xen-i386
dhcp tag : default
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
kickstart : /etc/cobbler/sample.ks
ks metadata : {}
owners : ['admin']
repos : []
server : <<inherit>>
virt bridge : xenbr0
virt cpus : 1
virt file size : 5
virt path :
virt ram : 512
virt type : xenpv
profile : CentOS54-64-bit-x86_64
distro : CentOS54-64-bit-x86_64
dhcp tag : default
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
kickstart : /etc/cobbler/sample.ks
ks metadata : {}
owners : ['admin']
repos : []
server : <<inherit>>
virt bridge : xenbr0
virt cpus : 1
virt file size : 5
virt path :
virt ram : 512
virt type : qemu
profile : CentOS54-64-bit-xen-x86_64
distro : CentOS54-64-bit-xen-x86_64
dhcp tag : default
kernel options : {}
post kernel options : {}
kickstart : /etc/cobbler/sample.ks
ks metadata : {}
owners : ['admin']
repos : []
server : <<inherit>>
virt bridge : xenbr0
virt cpus : 1
virt file size : 5
virt path :
virt ram : 512
virt type : xenpv
>Frank,
>
>Sounds like you might be missing the TFTP portion, you will need
>this for servers to PXE boot from and install Centos.
>Have not done anything with Centos, but we have an extensive Cobbler
>setup here that handles the PXE and VM (quem) installation of Fedora
>8 - Fedora 13.
>
>How did you import the Centos distros into cobbler? Also what does
>'cobbler check' and 'cobbler report' show?
>
>-Ron
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