[cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

Andrew Hamilton ahamilton55 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 00:11:11 UTC 2012


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Zack Perry <zack.perry at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> I think that I have some clues now. See the following two find results:
>
> [root at cobbler ks_mirror]# cd ubuntu-12.04.1-x86_64/
> [root at cobbler ubuntu-12.04.1-x86_64]# find . -name "*installer*"
> ./dists/precise/restricted/debian-installer
> ./dists/precise/main/debian-installer
> ./pool/main/g/grub-installer
> ./pool/main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.68ubuntu5_amd64.udeb
> ./pool/main/b/base-installer
> ./pool/main/b/base-installer/base-installer_1.122ubuntu7.1_all.udeb
> ./pool/main/n/net-retriever/download-installer_1.29ubuntu1_all.udeb
> ./pool/main/libd/libdebian-installer
>
> ./pool/main/libd/libdebian-installer/libdebian-installer4_0.79ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
> ./pool/main/d/debian-installer-utils
> ./install/netboot/ubuntu-installer
> [root at cobbler ubuntu-12.04.1-x86_64]# cd ../ubuntu-12.10-desktop-x86_64/
> [root at cobbler ubuntu-12.10-desktop-x86_64]# find . -name "*installer*"
> ./install/netboot/ubuntu-installer
>
> Nothing!
>
> James, I know this is not cobbler's job to ensure that a distro is ready
> for PXE boot, but perhaps it's still a good idea to put in a check just to
> ensure that necessary essentials are available?  Do you need me to open an
> issue on cobbler github?
>
> Here is a relevant Ask Ubuntu entry that seemed to have helped the user
though it looks like you have found the same issue.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/204786/unable-to-install-12-10-with-pxe

Basically like you found you need to mirror the ubuntu-installer directory
for this to work.

The Ubuntu Desktop CD is usually assumed to be the CD you won't use if you
want to netboot things. Most would go with the server install or the
alternative CD for such a task.

Regards,

Andrew


> Regards,
>
> -- Zack
>
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