[Spacewalk-list] Using Spacewalk and Kickstart without PXE/cobbler?

[Jonathan DeHaan]

Alexander,

Can you elaborate on 'without invoking it into the boot process' ? I'm 
not sure what you mean there.

You might be able to put a ks.cfg in the root directory of your ISO that 
has a %ksappend to pull in the kickstart generated by Spacewalk.

You don't bypass the ISO that Spacewalk hosts, because Spacewalk doesn't 
use the ISO as an ISO - it only needs a couple files in a few 
directories from the ISO.

Jonathan

On Fri 09 Mar 2012 05:54:19 AM CST, Gruel Alexander wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have been tasked with setting up the following scenario, and hope I
> can realise it using Spacewalk:
> We have (as some might have seen earlier) a working Spacewalk 1.7
> Server, which has been setup
> recently. We also have a PXE-Boot solution for IT Deployments
> (Matrix42EMC) up and running, which
> works fine for deploying Operating Systems etc.
>
> What we want to do now would be to have Matrix42 boot a client to a
> redhat/centos install iso, and attach it
> to a kickstart file serviced/provided by Spacewalk, but without
> invoking it into the boot process.
>
> I understand that you have to create a local kickstart tree with the
> ISO to use it, but I guess it would be possible
> to bypass that later when you just boot the same iso using other means
> and give the correct path to the kickstart
> file(s) on the console?
>
> Anyone ever experimented with this kind of setup?
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen/ Kind regards
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