[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk + Kickstart getting started questions

[visinix the great]

Nevermind, found a different solution. Just specifying the networking in
kernel options under xenserver and booting a netinstall iso seems to do the
job vs rolling a different iso.

Thanks,
Charlie

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:53 PM, visinix the great <visinix at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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