[Spacewalk-list] Issues with Kickstart

themaster001 themaster001 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 20:07:57 UTC 2012


Hello,

I am having issue with creating a kickstart on Spacewalk 1.6, I am
trying to follow the set up from CentOS Page
(http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk ). I have
download the lastest CentOS 5, and I have it mount, but when I go to
create a distro ( System --> Kickstart --> Distributions )

Distribution Label: CentOS-5-i386
Tree Path:/var/distro-trees/CentOS-5-i386/images/pxeboot/
Base Channel: CentOS 5 Base - i386
Installer Generation: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

I am getting the following error....

The initrd could not be found at the specified location:
/var/distro-trees/CentOS-5-i386/images/pxeboot/images/pxeboot/initrd.img

I know that the page states to make sure that the iso can be read by
tomcat so I have in /etc/fstab that it's owned by tomcat.

/var/iso-images/CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD-1of2.iso
/var/distro-trees/CentOS-5-i386 iso9660
rw,uid=91,gid=91,loop=/dev/loop1 0 0

I can see that works

drwxrwxr-x 6 tomcat tomcat 6144 Sep  5 08:10 CentOS-5-i386

I can see that initrd.img is there....

[root at spacewalk CentOS-5-i386]# cd images/pxeboot/
[root at spacewalk pxeboot]# pwd
/var/distro-trees/CentOS-5-i386/images/pxeboot
[root at spacewalk pxeboot]# ls
initrd.img  README  TRANS.TBL  vmlinuz
[root at spacewalk pxeboot]# ls -l
total 12058
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 10450542 Sep  5 07:53 initrd.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat      265 Sep  5 07:53 README
-r--r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat      659 Sep  5 08:10 TRANS.TBL
-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat  1894036 Sep  5 07:53 vmlinuz

Am I missing something? Is there a page I can view or can someone
please example to me what I am doing wrong?

I have even tried to set the tree as follows but I get an internal error 500

Tree Path:/var/distro-trees/CentOS-5-i386/

I looked at the Coobler logs and I am seeing that running, but I am
not seeing any errors....

Tue Feb 28 18:12:49 2012 - DEBUG | API handle initialized
Tue Feb 28 18:12:50 2012 - DEBUG | XMLRPC running on 25151

I have looked into the Apache, Spacewalk, and Tomcat logs and don't
see any errors.


Chuck Payne




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