On 03/28/2011 08:45 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: 
Les Mikesell wrote:


Cobbler is kind of overkill for a single install. If you can drop the CD
iso images under an NFS export, boot from USB and do an nfs install
you'll be done before you'd have cobbler set up.

I'm not sure what you mean by "drop the CD iso images" under NFS.

In any case, I'd prefer to use cobbler, as it seems the simplest way to go,
once it is set up,
and I'm thinking of installing CentOS-6 later, when it arrives.

So I'll repeat my query, which as far as I can see no-one has answered:
how do I use cobbler with 8 CD ISOs?
To be specific, what exactly do I "cobbler import"?
Cobbler is rather complex to setup.  If you want to pxeboot, you can still do this much faster by setting up a tftp server, a dhcp server and exporting the install tree  via NFS or HTTP. I simply loop mount the ISO image and export the mounted DVD via NFS.   I use something similar to what is described here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallMultiDistro

In your case, I think I would just follow Les Mikesell's advice and do an NFS install.  This is described in the Redhat installation guide.  See the sections on "Preparing for an NFS install", "Selecting an installation Method", and "Installing via NFS".  Alternatively you can use HTTP instead of NFS.

Nataraj