[Spacewalk-list] Using Spacewalk and KickstartwithoutPXE/cobbler?

[Gruel Alexander]

small update, it seems to have been a problem with SELinux being activated when I thought it was turned off.. creating profiles works now,
and the cobbler buildiso error vanished as well.. typical case of pebcak :D
 

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Von: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] Im Auftrag von Gruel Alexander
Gesendet: Montag, 12. März 2012 10:31
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Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Using Spacewalk and KickstartwithoutPXE/cobbler?

Hello,

as stated by Paul Marino, what I am looking for is indeed a solution using cobbler buildiso - so I can have the kickstart scripts managed using Spacewalk, but boot my environment using Matrix42 EMC.

I stumbled about another issue while testing this.. when I try to create a kickstart profile using the Spacewalk GUI, I always end up in an Internal Server Error:

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This leads to a Kickstart script being created, but marked as "not managed by Spacewalk GUI". 

Also, if I try to run cobbler buildiso (with a created distribution, but no kickstart scripts..if that matters):

task started: 2012-03-12_102836_buildiso task started (id=Build Iso, time=Mon Mar 12 10:28:36 2012) using/creating buildisodir: /var/cache/cobbler/buildiso Exception occured: <type 'exceptions.OSError'> Exception value: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/cobbler/buildiso'
Exception Info:

I don't really see how it can be a permission problem though, since all folder permissions starting from VAR up to the buildiso folder
are drwxr-xr-x.  3 root      root which should be fine.. 

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Von: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] Im Auftrag von Jonathan DeHaan
Gesendet: Freitag, 9. März 2012 17:53
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Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Using Spacewalk and Kickstart withoutPXE/cobbler?

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?
>
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