On 7/6/12 10:36 PM, Ed - 0x1b, Inc. wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Bob
Cochran<bcochran13(a)verizon.net> wrote:
> A couple days ago I successfully installed Fedora 17 using Cobbler, and I
> have "Everything" and "updates" repositories all set up to
install against.
> I am very pleased with the result. Performance was fast and my test laptop
> is fully up to date! Thanks to all of you for your help and advice to me to
> date. Now I'm moving on to my next challenge: installing CentOS 6.2 on a
> test desktop.
>
> Bob
>
Bob - did you use your own mirrors or those at fedoraproject? I have
local mirrors, but unfortunately the fedoraproject repos remain in the
yum.repos.d directory. Other than that Fedora 17 works - once the
networking snippet is fixed.
fedora 17 x86_64
Does Cobbler have a quick and easy way to not install the repos from
an installed distro? or am I looking at a kickstart snippet as my best
solution - thx
Hi Ed,
I am not real sure what you are asking, but if you mean "did I create my
own repos?", yes I did. No smarts involved at all on my part; some very
helpful person wrote this how to article on the Cobbler wiki:
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Manage%20Yum%20Repos
I followed that. I did learn the hard way that I need much more space
under / than a default install of CentOS 6.2 will give me. It allocates
50 Gb to the root partition ('/') and I ran out of that space before my
Fedora 17 x86_64 "Everything" repo could be built.
My own /etc/yum.repos.d directory has repo definitions for my repos plus
the normal Fedora 17 repos that are "out there". Based on what I have
seen when I do a "yum update", my repos are used first, and then the
Fedoraproject repos "out there". Since my repos have all the packages
and all the updates needed, I never actually pull from Fedoraproject's
mirrors as long as I am in my office. I have not yet taken the laptop
somewhere else in the world and then tried to do a 'yum update', but
since my repos are not public I am sure I would automatically update
from a Fedoraproject repo if I tried a 'yum update' at a Starbucks.
Oh, study the yum settings that are in /etc/cobbler/settings. I think
there is one that might be helpful to you -- but I'm no expert.
Bob
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