[et-mgmt-tools] RHEL4 Cobbler Setup

[Michael DeHaan]

Matt S Unix Administrator wrote:
> How might one import RHEL 4 into cobbler from the installation media.
> Such that the installation can be completed over the network. I've got a
> functional cobbler install already with several distributions.
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All you have to do is copy over the files from each CD into a directory 
somewhere on your cobbler server.  You'll want to preserve the directory 
layout that was on the CD.   

A good place to put this tree is 
/var/lib/cobbler/localmirror/rhel4$type$arch, though if you don't want 
to take up space in /var, you could just create a symlink to that point 
and put the files somewhere else.   (Note:  If not running Cobbler 
0.3.6, this would require manually configuring Apache to follow 
symlinks, 0.3.5 sets this up for you automatically).   The name 
"localmirror" is special, if you name it something else, cobbler will 
probably delete it for you, thinking it's content that shouldn't live in 
/var/lib/cobbler.

These files really don't have to be on the cobbler server, either.   In 
my setup, I just symlink a path to the kickstart trees that Red Hat 
stores on NFS shares, i.e. /mnt/foo/something/RHEL4/AS/tree.    Samba 
would technically work too if you are so inclined.

With the content already accessible from /var/lib/cobbler, you just use 
the following URL in your kickstart file:

url --url=http://$server/cobbler/localmirror/RHEL4/AS/i386/tree
(for cobbler 0.3.6, use "cobbler_track" instead of "cobbler" in the URL 
if you want to use kickstart tracking)

--Michael