[Spacewalk-list] cobbler buildiso questions

[Justin Sherrill]

Robert Kuropkat wrote:
> okay, I may be jumping ahead here, but I created a channel and child
> channel in spacewalk.  I was then able to boot from DVD and point it at
> the kickstart file in spacewalk.  I thought this meant I had enough done
> to create a bootable iso.  Cobbler has a buildiso option that I ran and
> it produced something.  But it was on 7M and had no rpms.  If I do a
> cobbler profile list I get the following:
> 
> [root at spacewalk isolinux]# cobbler profile list
> base_rhel_52_x86_32:1:Spacewalk-Public-Cert
> [root at spacewalk isolinux]# 
> 
> But when I do cobbler buildiso I get only the following in the iso:
> 
> [root at spacewalk kickstart]# ls -lCR
> .:
> images  isolinux  TRANS.TBL
> 
> ./images:
> 
> ./isolinux:
> 1.img  boot.cat   isolinux.bin  menu.c32
> 1.krn  chain.c32  isolinux.cfg  TRANS.TBL
> [root at spacewalk kickstart]# 
> 
> I do eventually want to do a PXE boot setup also, but I was stalling on
> that while I figure out DHCP/DNS in the VirtualBox world.
> 
> Robert Kuropkat

Have you tried booting the ISO yet?  It shouldn't actually contain any
rpms just kernels and initrds (which is what 1.krn and 1.img actually is).

-Justin



> 
> P.S.  I have not installed Spacewalk 0.7 yet, still with 0.6
> 
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