[CentOS] Setting up new spacewalk server

Tue Feb 17 20:36:45 UTC 2015
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 2/17/2015 12:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> 2015-02-17 22:26 GMT+02:00 Eckert, Doug<doug.eckert at dowjones.com>:
>
>> >We have a DHCP/PXE server in a build environment, which is separate from
>> >our Spacewalk v1.5 server. We direct builds to Satellite or Spacewalk based
>> >as needed. It contains initrd & vmlinuz files for each version/arch we
>> >currently deploy for both RHEL & CEL.
>> >
>> >I'd like to keep the storage footprint to a minimum, if possible. Keeping a
>> >big directory of ISOs to loop-mount for kickstart profile distributions
>> >seems excessive, especially when DVD#1 exceeds 4GB now. Is there any way
>> >around this requirement for kickstarting?
>> >
>> >
> How about using centos/rhel minimal iso for kickstarting ?

indeed, thats what I do, and point at an nfs or http repository of the 
packages.   the kickstart file contains all the configuration info for a 
particular setup.



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