[et-mgmt-tools] does CENTOS5 import work in Cobbler ?

[Harry Hoffman]

Martin,

Aha! thanks for the heads up. I didn't realize that, it's good to know :-)

And you are right, it certainly does sound like it belongs in Cobbler 
and not anaconda.

Cheers,
Harry

Martin Minka wrote:
> Harry,
> you are right that Anaconda is running only over HTTP, but it is not 
> limited to port 80. It is totally ok to run for example over port 81. I 
> did it successfully many times without Cobbler. The problem is that 
> Cobbler creates wrong kernel option syslog if you set "server" in file 
> settings to server with port. It would not even work if you put "server: 
> 'x.x.x.x:80'. Cobbler is simply adding the syslog_port setting to the 
> kernel option. So it happens that the generated pxelinux.cfg contains:
> syslog=x.x.x.x:81:25150
> or
> syslog=x.x.x.x:80:25150
> if you set port number to "server" variable and it should alway generate
> syslog=x.x.x.x:25150
> 
> Cobbler should replace the port number and not add a new one to it.
> So I really believe that it is problem of Cobbler and not Anaconda.
> Anaconda could improve the error message and add the syslog paramer to 
> output. I reported that also to Centos bug tracker: 
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2463
> 
> Sincerely,
> Martin
> 
> Harry Hoffman wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> Just read the bug report... You may actually want to file this against 
>> anaconda and not cobbler.
>>
>> I don't think anaconda will work with anything other than port 80 
>> (standard http).
>>
>> I say this because there was some recent discussion on the kickstart 
>> list about trying to kickstart over SSL and that is not supported.
>>
>> It would be nice to have though :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Harry
>>
>> Martin Minka wrote:
>>> Thank to tip from timverhoeven on IRC to look into pxelinux.cfg I 
>>> identify the root of my problem and submitted bug report  
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397201.
>>>
>>> Thank for your time,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>>> On Nov 23, 2007 10:47 AM, Martin Minka <martin.minka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> Harry,
>>>>> files are attached.
>>>>> Cobbler version is 0.602.
>>>>>
>>>>> The error message looks strange for me and maybe it is not related to
>>>>> cobbler.
>>>>> I am not able now to try to install directly from CDROM, because I am
>>>>> far away from that server, so I am not able to exclude cobbler as the
>>>>> reason of this problem.
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>> I have cobbler imported via mirror
>>>>
>>>> cobbler repo add --name=centos-i386-3.9
>>>> --mirror=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/3.9/os/i386/
>>>> cobbler repo add --name=centos-i386-4.5
>>>> --mirror=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.5/os/i386/
>>>> cobbler repo add --name=centos-i386-5.0
>>>> --mirror=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.0/os/i386/
>>>> cobbler repo add --name=centos-i386-3.9-updates
>>>> --mirror=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/3.9/updates/i386/
>>>> cobbler repo add --name=centos-i386-4.5-updates
>>>> --mirror=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.5/updates/i386/
>>>> cobbler repo add --name=centos-i386-5.0-updates
>>>> --mirror=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.0/updates/i386/
>>>>
>>>> Seems to have worked fine. I did do it previously from DVDs and CDroms.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>
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