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?
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.
Thoughts?
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?
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.
Right, I think it would be much more useful than the standard install media. This way, you'd have all your systems/profiles for a given distro on a DVD so if you had to build a systems in a network-less environment (or at least one that doesn't have access to a cobbler server), you'd still have your menu of options, and kickstarts with included snippets that fully configure your systems for you.
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?
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.
Thoughts?
Revisor does this, with revisor-cobbler and --cobbler-use-profile.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip
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