[Spacewalk-list] Kickstarts disappearing after reboot & not working

[Howard Coles]

This is what I did.
After syncing the OEL 6 distro and setting up channel and repo etc.  

1.  I mounted the OEL 6.5 DVD.  
2.  created a directory called: /var/satellite/rhn/kickstart/ks-oel-x86_64-server-6-6.5  (mainly to match the naming scheme found on Satellite)
3.  Rsync'ed the DVD to that directory excluding the RPMs directory.
Then followed these directions:

  1.   Select "Systems|Kickstart|Distributions" and select "+ create new distribution"
  2.   On the "Create Kickstart Distribution" page, fill in the items as described
  3.  "Distribution label" in this case might be "oel6_65_x86_64"
  4.  "Tree path" should be "/var/satellite/rhn/kickstart/ks-oel-x86_64-server-6-6.5"
  5.  "Base channel" should be "Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64)"
  6.  "Installer generation" should be Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in this case.
  7.  Once you've pressed the "Create Kickstart Distribution" button you'll see a table that includes your new entry.
  8.  If you run "cobbler distro list" at your spacewalk system's command line, you'll now see these entries in addition to any others you may have already defined. This will show that things were created successfully. These are named automatically by Spacewalk using the pattern <spacewalk distribution tag>:<organization ID>:<organization name>. You may rename them in Cobbler if you like.

I then had to setup the Distribution Channel Map to finish the process.

I found instructions all over the web for how to "create kickstartable trees on Spacewalk" for various distros, CentOS has a pretty good set of instructions that worked as well.


See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.


-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Avi Miller
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 4:08 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstarts disappearing after reboot & not working


On 29 May 2014, at 10:07 pm, Howard Coles <hcoles at dollargeneral.com> wrote:

> Ours is a fresh install, just as you mention running on RHEL 6.5 64bit, and we haven't seen the disappearing kickstarts, of course, we're having to manually create them because Oracle's repo doesn't provide them. 

Slightly off-topic: if someone can point me towards documentation about what would be required within our repos to support kickstarting, I'd be happy to look into pushing that into our repositories. 

Cheers,
Avi

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