[Spacewalk-list] cobbler buildiso questions

[Robert Kuropkat]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 08:46 -0500, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

Oh, it looks like I misunderstood the process.  buildiso just gives a
boot menu that still reaches out to the Spacewalk/PXE server?  I thought
it gave a totally disconnected install option, thus rpms and all.

Thanks...

Robert Kuropkat