[Spacewalk-list] Kickstarting KVM Image

[James Hogarth]

Hmm that's odd... I always use a netinstall CD for my kickstarts...

I use a custom isolinux.cfg file to have labels predetermined for a variety
of configurations.... DB, base, web slave, varnish proxy etc depending on
the role the system is to have... The kickstarts differ by activation key
used (for different packages/channels and configuration channels) and
network configurations...

To save space on my ESX farms I use a netinstall cd to kickstart them (dont'
have access to dhcp in my environment for PXE) since the ~5-9MB netinstall
for teh purpose of kickstart is much better than the space for the
CD/DVD....

One thing that does ring a bell given you say the CentOS first CD works for
this is...

I have seen similar behaviour when attempting to use, say, a 5.0 RHEL CD to
kickstart from a 5.1 repo mirror... and vice versa. If memory serves
anaconda doesn't like booting from kernel 'A' and then finding kernel 'B' in
the kickstart distro tree....

What base (5.x) version was the netinstall iso you were trying to use? I see
you have a 5.4 tree....

If you need help building a custom iso for kickstart purposes let me know
and I'll share my build scripts and isolinux behaviour.

James

2009/12/11 James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>

> You wont' see anything in your browser at the path there as it appears
> spacewalk only delivers content requested and not everything in the
> 'virtual' directory......
>
> How far do you get with the KS installation? Package install, partitioning,
> no KS file found, etc?
>
> 2009/12/11 Gerd Mueller <gerd.mueller at mikatiming.de>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I cannot get the kickstart installation do work. After configuring I
>> find following parameter in my kickstart file:
>>
>> url --url http://spacewalk..../ks/dist/Centos-5.4-x86_64
>>
>> If I open this path with a standardbrowser I don't find anything
>> underneath this path. If I change the manually parameter to
>>
>> url --url http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.4/os/x86_64
>>
>> the kickstart installation runs but doesnot finish successfully.
>>
>> I am sure I am missing something her. But what?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Gerd
>>
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