[Spacewalk-list] RHEL4 Kickstart Problems

Andy Speagle andy.speagle at wichita.edu
Thu Sep 3 13:02:46 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 07:47 -0500, John Hodrien wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 21:43 -0500, Cliff wrote:
> >> Use your own internal tiny url service to shorten and redirect the
> >> requests?
> >
> > This might be an option.  A couple of things that are eluding me
> about
> > the Spacewalk+Cobbler configuration.
> >
> > 1) Where would I go to configure the KS URL that cobbler passes on
> the
> > PXE kernel boot line?
> >
> > 2) If'n I remember correctly, did(does)n't Satellite/Spacewalk have
> a
> > tinyurl system already in place for the KS URLs?  If so, can cobbler
> be
> > configured to utilize that to manage its URLs?
> >
> > 3) I thought that Anaconda was updated after RHEL4.4 to handle >255
> > characters on the kernel boot line.  Am I mistaken?
> 
> I've not had any problems with long boot lines (with 5.2/5.3).

Indeed, this seems to be a problem with pre-RHEL5 anaconda.  My RHEL5
provisioning is working flawlessly.
-- 
Andy Speagle

"THE Student" - UCATS
Wichita State University
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/attachments/20090903/17b3b9a1/attachment.sig>


More information about the Spacewalk-list mailing list