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My experience is with Fedora, rather than CentOS, but I suspect you
are running into the same problem. <br>
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Anaconda does not pull repomd.xml from the base repository, it pulls
it from the installation media. I suspect that this may be because
it needs the location of the comps file, which Spacewalk does not
provide. The upshot is that you need to have a repodata/repomd.xml
and repodata/comps.xml file in your distribution tree, and the
contents of the repomd.xml file need to match what packages you have
in your base channel. If you have packages in your base channel that
repomd.xml does not know about, anaconda will not find them. If you
are missing packages from your base channel that are referenced by
repomd.xml or comps.xml, it will complain about missing packages.<br>
<br>
I'm not sure how the netboot ISO gets around this, but since you are
handing it a custom kickstart, whatever workaround they have in
place is being ignored.<br>
<br>
Jonathan<br>
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On 12/21/2011 05:49 AM, Daniel Jabbour wrote:
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children: updates, and tools for spacewalk).
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<div>On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Rick van der Linde wrote:</div>
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z-index: auto; ">I am trying to load systems using
Spacewalk 1.5 & Cobbler. I have configured
Spacewalk (and Cobbler, DHCP, TFTP, etc) with my
software channels, and created a Kickstart profile
& distribution. The kickstart process starts off
great, loads the PXE image, runs anaconda, and then
fails when it can't find repomd.xml in the Base repo.
The exact error is:<br>
<br>
"Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
repository: anaconda-CentOS-201112060039.x86_64.
Please verify its path and try again"<br>
<br>
On the console, it seems to be attempting to fetch:<br>
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Failed to get<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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href="http://10.20.3.98/ks/dist/CentOS-6-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml">http://10.20.3.98/ks/dist/CentOS-6-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"The requested
URL returned error: 404"<br>
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I verified that there isn't a network/firewall issue.
In fact, it seems that repomd.xml doesn't exist in the
ISO image I have mounted.<br>
<br>
Let me describe my setup so perhaps someone can tell
me what I'm doing wrong:<br>
* I have defined a CentOS 6 Base channel, with an
updates and tools channels as children.<br>
* I downloaded the NetBoot ISO and mounted it to
/var/distro-trees/CentOS-6-x86_64.<br>
* I configured a distribution to point to this ISO
mounted directory (/var/distro-trees/CentOS-6-x86_64).<br>
<br>
I think the error stems from the fact that the ISO
doesn't contain a repomd.xml file in
/var/distro-trees/CentOS-6-x86_64. As a result, the
client is 404ing.<br>
<br>
I can't find much in the way of documentation about
exactly which ISO is appropriate to use with
Spacewalk, and how exactly the provisioning process
works.<br>
<br>
Any ideas?<br>
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you select any other channels in your kickstart
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