[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler system add

[drew einhorn]

On 8/10/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> drew einhorn wrote:
> > Think there's at least 2 parts to my dnsmasq problem.
> >
> > Got past the firstone.  It was a permissions problem.
> > Had to do a chmod o+rx /var/lib/cobbler
> >
> > which was owned by root, but dnsmasq was running as nobody
>
> Will fix the RPM, thanks.   The proper fix is probably just to chmod the
> cobbler_hosts file +r and leave the rest as is.


Think /var/lib/cobbler needs  o+x  otherwise "nobody"  will  not
even be able to look in the directory and see the cobbler hosts
much less read it.

>
> >
> > Don't know if the permission on /var/lib/cobbler was a default
> > from the cobbler installation, or something I mucked up.
>
> Looks like something I mucked up :)
> >
> > Haven't gotten started on the second on.
> >
> > Peter Wright suggested that it looks like my vmlinuz/initrd.img
> > don't support my virtual nic.  He's probably right,  I've got to
> > figure out how to build the right vmlinz/initrd.img before I try
> > again and we see if there's a third problem lurking behind these
> > two.
>
> cobbler import will pick the kernel/initrd from the "os/images/pxe"
> directory for
> TFTP installs.   If you used "cobbler import" and your distro/profile
> didn't contain
> the word "Xen" in it, that's the one you are using.   The Xen pair
> definitely
> probably won't work.    If those don't work, the NIC is probably the
> issue -- though
> I would kind of expect them to be simulating something relatively
> standard.    Could be wrong :)


I'm trying to get things running  VMware, will amost certainly have
to roll my own.

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Drew Einhorn
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