I just tried with Centos 5.4 but result was the same. Somehow cobbler never offered
external repo even though it was mirrored locally and included in the profile. i'm
still
not convinced my ks file is correct even though there is nit much to be wrong there
as I used the existing anaconda-ks.cfg as an input.
This might actually be related to you enabling the CentOS updates
repo. See
this bug:
My ugly hack to get around it was to disable the updates repo in the
Cobbler CentOS profile, and in the post section of the ks, I add the centos
update repo and trigger a yum upgrade. Ugly, but it works.
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Thanks Gonzalo and Michael. yum_post_install_mirror: 1 was already set in
the /etc/cobbler/settings (cobbler-2.0.11). I mirrored epel repo and added
it to the profile:
cobbler profile report
Name : Centos_6.0_x86_64_Bit
Comment :
DHCP Tag : default
Distribution : Centos_6.0_x86_64
Enable PXE Menu? : 1
Kernel Options : {}
Kernel Options (Post Install) : {}
Kickstart : /distros/kickstarts/centos60.ks
Kickstart Metadata : {}
Management Classes : []
Name Servers : []
Name Servers Search Path : []
Owners : ['admin']
Parent Profile :
Red Hat Management Key : <<inherit>>
Red Hat Management Server : <<inherit>>
Repos : ['puppet-epel-6']
Server Override : <<inherit>>
Template Files : {}
Virt Auto Boot : 1
Virt Bridge : xenbr0
Virt CPUs : 1
Virt File Size(GB) : 5
Virt Path :
Virt RAM (MB) : 512
Virt Type : xenpv
unfortunately this hasn't resolved the "puppet package doesn't exist"
error. Things started happening when i
added $yum_repo_stanza to my ks file; dependencies were resolved and the installation
finally started.
so i though everything was good until i received the error at 50% of the installation:
"fatal error occurred
while installing initscripts package", installation aborted. so i went back to the
basic os installation
(only base repo, no external repos) and it worked like a charm. kind of running out of
ideas. perhaps
my ks file is missing something?
You want to add the EPEL repos and then, in the CentOS profile, you'll see a select
box where you can select what repos to enable during installation. You select all the
repos you want in there (such as EPEL, Puppetlabs, etc). Those repos will not persist
after installation, though I believe there is a variable that makes them stick around
after install (yum_config_something).
Good luck!
Gonzalo
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:39 PM, George Pitich <george_pitich(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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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