[CentOS] Setting up new spacewalk server

Wed Feb 18 19:49:24 UTC 2015
Eckert, Doug <doug.eckert at dowjones.com>

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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