[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk + Kickstart getting started questions

[visinix the great]

Also, here is my 'cobbler check'

[root at spacewalk ~]# cobbler check
The following are potential configuration items that you may want to fix:

1 : debmirror package is not installed, it will be required to manage
debian deployments and repositories
2 : The default password used by the sample templates for newly installed
machines (default_password_crypted in /etc/cobbler/settings) is still set
to 'cobbler' and should be changed, try: "openssl passwd -1 -salt
'random-phrase-here' 'your-password-here'" to generate new one
3 : fencing tools were not found, and are required to use the (optional)
power management features. install cman or fence-agents to use them

Restart cobblerd and then run 'cobbler sync' to apply changes.

Nothing out of the ordinary that should be a show stopper in my opinion.

Thanks,
Charlie


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:51 PM, visinix the great <visinix at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the links, I got a good portion of the way done and it
> seemingly is working and ready to go. My problem comes in that I'm trying
> to do a kick start over network, and I referenced the link you passed my
> way...
>
> https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Build%20Iso
>
> So I have run 'cobbler buildiso' and 'cobbler buildiso
> --profile=centos-6-x86_64' but both of the isos it generates, fails to
> include vmlinuz which is causing my xenserver to complain when I try to
> boot with this media.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is there more manual intervention on my
> part that I am missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Jan Hutař <jhutar at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:33:34 -0400 visinix the great
>> <visinix at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Team,
>> >
>> > Question #1
>> >
>> > I was wondering if there is any /current/ documentation to get
>> > kickstart going with spacewalk. Looking at the wiki we have
>> > this:
>> >
>> > https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToKickstartCobbler
>> >
>> > But my concern is that this references version 0.4 and the
>> > page was updated 2 years ago. Has the setup process really
>> > not changed that much since?
>>
>> Hi,
>> at last section "Quick Start Guide for Spacewalk" seems OK.
>>
>> > Question #2
>> >
>> > In that documentation, one of the first instructions is "Find
>> > some distribution isos and mount them.".
>> >
>> > What ISOs are normally used? Can I just get a CentOS
>> > {5..6}-min.iso and use that for getting a server running?
>>
>> If these can be used to install system then they probably
>> contain vmlinuz+initrd.img (for kickstartable distribution) and
>> some set of packages (for channel), so it should be enough.
>>
>> > I plan on not using PXE as most of our infa in virtualized
>> > (xen), so I think just a bootable cd or media is what I need.
>> > (please correct me if I'm doing this wrong)
>>
>> For that, this might be interesting for you:
>>
>> https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Build%20Iso
>>
>> > Thanks for any help,
>> > Charlie
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
>> jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
>>
>
>
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