[Thincrust-devel] Kickstart woes

[Bryan Kearney]

Dwain:

Just checking in.. how are things going?

-- bk


Bryan Kearney wrote:
> Dwain:
> 
> We will need to have you make a yum repo out of these disks. If you 
> notice, there is a Server or a Client directory in each disk. Copy the 
> contents of this directory from each disk onto the filesystem. Then, run 
> creterepo on that directory.
> 
> Add that new repo to your kickstart, and you are good.
> 
> -- 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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