Timothy Murphy wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
- The CentOS OS seems to be available in 7 or 8 CDs.
(I tried downloading the DVD ISO with ktorrent, but this was a complete failure. It started OK, but then created literally thousands of links to one file, which brought my server down, and left it in a state which was quite hard to clean up.)
Dunno. Last time I brought down the DVD iso, I had no trouble just doing a straight d/l, no torrent.
Where did you find the DVD ISO? When I follow the download instructions at http://www.centos.org/ I am only offered "local", ie west european, mirrors, and none of those I looked at had the DVD ISO; all of them just had 8 CD ISOs.
Ok, I had to search a little, and I am in the US, but I went to the mirror list, and picked from there. A few judicious checks - edu, rackspace, but then I saw "supercomputer center", and found a 2-part DVD iso at http://mirrors.arsc.edu/centos/5/isos/x86_64/
Mount the CD isos using loopback (mount -o loop), and copy.
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I didn't follow this. Do you mean mount each of the 8 CDs using loopback? And what exactly am I meant to copy?
d/l the .iso's, mkdir /mnt/disk1 /mnt/disk2/... mount -o loop /whereeverIdl/centos_cd_disk1.iso /mnt/disk1 etc. mkdir /mnt/centos_dvd cp -p /mnt/disk1/* /mnt/disk2/*... /mnt/centos_dvd/
I mean, I'm not thinking about this a lot, but if that doesn't work, you could copy the rpms into the directory, or you could try cp -p /mnt/disk1/ /mnt/disk2/... /mnt/centos_dvd/ which would give you disk1... under /mnt/centos_dvd, and burn that onto one or two dvds.
I need to indicate where "cobbler import" should look, I assume.
Worked *some* with Spacewalk, not really at all with cobbler, so I can't answer that.
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