Successful Medialess Install of Fedora 11 i386 -- Mainly For Puppet

[Robert L Cochran]

Now I have puppet on a Fedora 11 i386 client successfully connecting to 
the puppetmaster server on a different box...also Fedora 11, but x86_64. 
When the puppet client recieved it's certificate and started working, I 
got no less than 21 AVC denials on 'ifconfig' right after. That's from 
running in enforcing mode. I have changed the client to permissive mode 
for now.

Bob


On 06/21/2009 10:23 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I'm really interested in working with the puppet application, and I 
> just happen to have an extra laptop hanging around. Said laptop turned 
> out to be capable of booting from USB. I found an old external hard 
> drive which formerly booted Fedora 8.
>
> I connected the hard drive to the laptop's USB port.
>
> Went to another machine and mounted the Fedora 11 i386 iso image on 
> one of my webservers.
>
> Came back to the laptop and booted Fedora 8. By downloading the 
> vmlinuz and initrd images off the web server, moving them into /boot, 
> and then adding a suitable stanza to grub.conf, and then rebooting, I 
> was able to get a medialess install started.
>
> I had a perfect install experience!
>
> The beauty of it is, because I checked off the Fedora updates 
> repository as one of the repositories to use, I got the latest and 
> greatest versions of everything. A big bonus was I didn't have to burn 
> another DVD that would go unused and land in the trash. 10 cheers for 
> medialess installation methods.
>
> As to the puppet client on the very fresh Fedora 11 machine, I'm still 
> working at getting it to connect to the puppet server which is on this 
> machine. I needed to clean up some of my local DNS zone files. I've 
> gotten sloppy over the years and I don't do DNS every day. So I also 
> had to read carefully about CNAME records. The 10th time is the charm. 
> Tomorrow success will be mine, I hope.
>
> Bob
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