[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart w/o internet access

[Mullis, Josh (CCI-Atlanta)]

I'm not sure if this is a function of spacewalk or cobbler.

You may want to try the cobbler mailing list.





On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 12:25 -0400, Sascha Bendix wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> in my current setup the clients doesn't have access to the internet. They are supposed to get all the stuff they need from the spacewalk (version 1.1) server.
> 
> There is only one little problem with this: During the kickstart process the update of package lists seems to be triggered by rhnreg_ks and rhn_check during the first %post section which is titled "cobbler snippet". At this point they always wait for the timeout which takes 4 time longer than the rest of the installation does.
> 
> I couldn't find out where this "cobbler snippet" is located in the filesystem (it's not in /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/snippets). Can anybody give me some hint ?
> 
> I disable the repositories later in some other %post script. As an alternative to change the snippet, is there a way to do the registration in some later %post section?
> 
> Or does anybody has another idea how to deal with this issue?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sascha Bendix
> 
> 
> 
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