[Spacewalk-list] RHEL4 Kickstart Problems

[Cliff]

Andy Speagle wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 07:08 -0500, Andy Speagle wrote:
>> 1)  It seems that the URL for the initial Cobbler kickstart file is
>> being truncated when passed to anaconda.
>>
>> The original URL which is passed on the kernel boot line as:
>>
>> http://<server>/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/rhel-i386-server-4-8-default:1:Spacewalk-Public-Cert
>>
>> Is being truncated to:
>>
>> http://<server>/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/rhel-i386-server-4-8-
>>
>> Which seems to stop the entire process and Anaconda starts asking me
>> questions, since it can't get this file.
> 
> I'm going to go ahead and answer my own question.  I had forgotten that
> there were issues with pre-RHEL5 installers in that the boot parameters
> were limited to 255 characters.  I had thought this was fixed in later
> versions of RHEL4 to increase it to like 2k and definitely explains why
> this works perfectly in RHEL5.
> 
> Since Cobbler+Spacewalk generates such freakishly large kickstart URLs
> and I want to pass some other networking options configured in the
> "distro", is there any way to get this to work for RHEL4?  I'm trying to
> install RHEL4.7 ...
> 
> Does anyone have any insight they can lend?
> 
Use your own internal tiny url service to shorten and redirect the 
requests?

Cliff

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