On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Gonzalo Servat
<gonzalo.servat(a)sirca.org.au> wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to kickstart some ESXi5 installs through Cobbler, so I found a
commit that adds this functionality
(
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/95) which was merged into master. I
thought that might go into the unstable version of Cobbler, but I see the
cobbler packages have disappeared from epel-testing. I vaguely recall
someone saying they have been moved to EPEL stable?
Does this mean the EPEL Cobbler RPMs (stable or otherwise) are the latest
available? If so, any ideas when the newest Cobbler RPMs will be released
that include the gPXE and ESXi5 mods?
Without making major mods to Cobbler, is there any other way to install
ESXi5 with my current version (2.2.1) and no gPXE?
Yes, 2.2.2-1 is the most recent release, and is available in EPEL5/6 stable.
Doing an ESXi install without gpxe doesn't really work well with
cobbler, because you have to manually copy all the files to the tftp
root directory. The problem with that is "cobbler sync" cleans that
directory out, so you'd have to recopy the files after every sync -
not a good way to go.
So if you want to play with this functionality (which is really very
alpha at this point), my recommendation is to get the git repo and run
"make rpms" on the master branch. This will build you 2.3.1 RPMs that
you can then install.