Hi George,
i've been trying to kickstart centos 6 (pxe) with cobbler for some time but haven't been successful. namely if installation doesn't require any external repos (like epel or rpmforge) kickstart works great. however when installation needs some packages provided in external repos (epel) i don't know how to specify such a request.
I thought that:
cobbler repo add --name=EPEL-x86_64 --mirror=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64 --mirror-locally=N
would fetch dependencies during kickstart (puppet) but that simply didn't happen (did cobbler reposync), installation process would complain that puppet package didn't exist. excerpt from the ks file:
url --url http://server-ip/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/
%packages
@base
@compat-libraries
@core
@puppet
Os and core packages are served from a local yum repo that resides on the same box as cobbler:
also:
cobbler add --name=Centos_6.0_x86_64 --kernel=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz --initrd=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
cobbler distro add --name=Centos_6.0_x86_64 --kernel=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz --initrd=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
cobbler profile add --name=Centos_6.0_x86_64_Bit --distro=Centos_6.0_x86_64 --kickstart=/distros/kickstarts/centos60.ks
I can browse the repo without any issues (repo was created from 2 centos 6 dvd iso files). At the moment i am mirroring epel through the cobbler locally. once mirror is done i'll create the profile but not sure if this is the only thing required?
i'm quite new to cobbler and would appreciate any help on this matter.
thx.
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