[CentOS] Setting up new spacewalk server

[Eckert, Doug]

Same is true for i386 6.5 and 6.4 minimal. I gave up after seeing the same
thing on 3 ISOs, but it probably follows all the way down to 6.0.



On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Eckert, Doug <doug.eckert at dowjones.com>
wrote:

> ISO pulled from
>
>
> http://mirror.rackspace.com/CentOS/6.6/isos/i386/CentOS-6.6-i386-minimal.iso
>
> # df -h /var/distros/CentOS-6.6-i386
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /var/ISO/CentOS-6.6-i386-minimal.iso
>                       339M  339M     0 100% /var/distros/CentOS-6.6-i386
> # find /var/distros/CentOS-6.6-i386 -name initr\*
> /var/distros/CentOS-6.6-i386/isolinux/initrd.img
> #
>
> In fact, the /images is populated with
>
> images/install.img
> images/TRANS.TBL
> images/updates.img
>
> Nothing else. I can pull apart the ISO, create images/pxeboot, plop the
> vmlinuz & initrd.img file into place and create a new ISO, but it seems
> like it should already be there, no? The 64-bit "minimal" ISOs for CEL 6&7
> from the same source have them in the right place...
>
> I'd like to just ditch all the i386 stuff, but we do have some legacy
> systems that were built as such.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Eckert, Doug <doug.eckert at dowjones.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Trying to use "minimal" ISOs
>>
>> The 64-bit CEL 7.0 and 6.6 look ok so far. but when I try to set up the
>> CEL 6.6 i386, but I get the following
>>
>>
>>    - The initrd could not be found at the specified location:
>>    /var/distros/CentOS-6.6-i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
>>
>>
>> It does have the initrd.img file in .../isolinux, but for some reason,
>> not in .../images/pxeboot
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:36 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>
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>>
>> *Doug Eckert*
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>>
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>
> --
>
> *Doug Eckert*
> *Technical Architect*
>
> *Global Business Technology*
> *Dow Jones* | *A News Corporation Company*
> P.O. Box 300 | Princeton NJ 08543-0300
> (W) 609.520.4993 (C) 732.666.3681
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*Doug Eckert*
*Technical Architect*

*Global Business Technology*
*Dow Jones* | *A News Corporation Company*
P.O. Box 300 | Princeton NJ 08543-0300
(W) 609.520.4993 (C) 732.666.3681
*Email: **doug.eckert at dowjones.com* <alias at dowjones.com>