James Cammarata wrote:
Hey all, I'm working on building a few new systems, but they're in a build lab that doesn't have access to a cobbler server. I was hoping to use buildiso to get around this, but apparently there isn't any option to actually copy the distros/all required files to the ISO image too, correct?
You will need accessibility to the cobbler server. The kernel/initrd do appear on the ISO but that is it.
If so, I think this would be a handy option, for those situations where you need cobbler-on-a-dvd. Perhaps a --copy-files or --standalone option? It would probably be wise to limit this to single distros on a DVD iso only, since more than one would be huge and I'd imagine a lot of users would run into space issues while trying to compile that into the ISO.
Yep. I'd be interested in seeing that, though I suspect at that point where you are really doing is taking a distro CD and putting a ks= URL into the default kernel options and rebuilding it. Seems doable from what data cobbler has imported, however (maybe), which would be better than keeping the ISOs around.
Thoughts?