[Thincrust-devel] Kickstart woes
Dwain Sims
Dwain.Sims at steeleye.com
Thu Jun 12 15:18:59 UTC 2008
I have the media available via CD images that I have mounted and made
available under http.
Index of /rhel5-install
[ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
[DIR] Parent Directory -
[DIR] disk1/ 26-Jan-2007 23:25 -
[DIR] disk2/ 26-Jan-2007 23:25 -
[DIR] disk3/ 26-Jan-2007 23:25 -
[DIR] disk4/ 26-Jan-2007 23:25 -
[DIR] disk5/ 26-Jan-2007 23:25 -
Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora) Server at fayette Port 80
That is how I am getting the vm to start up initially. It works fine by
itself.
It's just when I add the packages coming out of my repo that I have a
problem.
Dwain
Dwain Sims
dwain.sims at steeleye.com
Office: 919-844-0769
-----Original Message-----
From: thincrust-devel-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:thincrust-devel-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Kearney
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:13 AM
To: Thincrust tooling devel list
Subject: Re: [Thincrust-devel] Kickstart woes
Ahh.. you need a repo for RHEL as well. Do you have access to the
install media or RHN?
-- bk
Dwain Sims wrote:
> OK -making progress but still lost I think.....
>
> This is my http://localhost/lknfs contents
>
> Index of /lknfs
> [ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
> [DIR] Parent Directory -
> [ ] jre-1_5_0_07-linux-i586.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:49 16M
> [ ] pdksh-5.2.14-30.3.i386.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:47 187K
> [DIR] repodata/ 12-Jun-2008 09:58 -
> [ ] steeleye-lk-6.2.2-1.i386.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:24 1.4M
> [ ] steeleye-lkDR-6.2.1-3.noarch.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 442K
> [ ] steeleye-lkGUI-6.2.2-1.i386.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:24 1.1M
> [ ] steeleye-lkHLP-6.2.2-1.noarch.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 1.7M
> [ ] steeleye-lkIP-6.2.2-1.noarch.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 66K
> [ ] steeleye-lkLIC-6.2.1-3.i386.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:50 270K
> [ ] steeleye-lkMAN-6.2.2-1.noarch.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 60K
> [ ] steeleye-lkNFS-5.1.1-1.noarch.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 49K
> [ ] steeleye-lkRAW-6.2.2-1.noarch.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 25K
> [ ] steeleye-lkRHAS-6.2.1-3.noarch.rpm 12-Jun-2008 09:48
> 17K
> Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora) Server at fayette Port 80
>
>
> And here is what I put in the kickstart
>
> #
> # Include the repositories
> #
> #%include repo-rhel5.ks
>
> repo --name=lknfs --baseurl=http://localhost/lknfs
>
> #
> # Add all the packages after the base packages
> #
> %packages --excludedocs --nobase
>
>
> #
> # Packages to Add
> #
> bash
> kernel
> grub
> e2fsprogs
> passwd
> policycoreutils
> chkconfig
> rootfiles
> yum
> vim-minimal
> acpid
> dhclient
> openssh-clients
> openssh-server
>
> pdksh
> steeleye-lkRHAS
> jre
> steeleye-lkLIC
> steeleye-lk
> steeleye-lkGUI
> steeleye-lkHLP
> steeleye-lkIP
> steeleye-lkMAN
> steeleye-lkRAW
> steeleye-lkNFS
> steeleye-lkDR
>
>
> Running kickstart still claims it cannot find the packages ("The
package
> does not exist"). Do I need to be more explicit on the names (full
path
> names perhaps?)
>
> Dwain
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thincrust-devel-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:thincrust-devel-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Kearney
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:41 AM
> To: Thincrust tooling devel list
> Subject: Re: [Thincrust-devel] Kickstart woes
>
> See below
>
> Dwain Sims wrote:
>> I have created a yum repository for our software and I have it
> available
>> from http. Createrepo seemed to do the right thing. So in my
>> kickstart I have
>>
>>
>>
>> repo --name=lknfs --baseurl=http://localhost/lknfs
>
> Assuming that you see this addres, and there is a repodata directory
in
> there you are good.
>
>> My main question is how do I tell kickstart to install all of the
RPMs
>
>> in this repository?
>
> In the %packages section you need to list the packages you would like
to
>
> install. Kickstrt (via yum) will pull in the rest. You could create a
> group for yum to use, but that explicit list will be easier.
>
>> Since our application is many RPMs, is ThinCrust going to work OK
> with
>> us? I guess I am concerned that our install is too complicated for
>> this to work right.
>
> Should be no issue.
>
> -- bk
>
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