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?
Thanks in advance.
Gonzalo
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Gonzalo Servat gonzalo.servat@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.
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, James Cammarata jimi@sngx.net wrote:
Yes, 2.2.2-1 is the most recent release, and is available in EPEL5/6 stable.
Yep, I downloaded the RPM and used rpm2cpio to see if the ESXi5 changes made it in there, but yeah... they didn't :-)
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.
Ah yes, gotcha. I don't use gPXE either so I'd have to get that in there, too.
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.
Might hold off and use the auto-deploy server and maybe get Cobbler to just point at the auto-deploy tftp server (only due to lack of time).
- Gonzalo
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