[Spacewalk-list] Issues with Kickstart

[Jonathan DeHaan]

On my system, I do not include the images/pxeboot portion of the path in 
the Tree Path field. I also do not include a trailing slash.

Jonathan

On 02/28/2012 04:00 PM, themaster001 wrote:
> By the way,
>
> I have also tried with this CentOS 6, and it's doing the same thing.
> So there is something going on.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:07 PM, themaster001<themaster001 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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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Jonathan DeHaan
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