I'm trying to install Fedora 11 using Cobbler. The test machine I am using is a quite old Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop with a brand new (meaning blank) hard drive. The laptop is capable of PXE booting. I've tried to follow the directions given for setting up Cobbler.
I have cobblerd running. The DVD for Fedora 11, i386 is mounted at http://localhost/fedorainstall. I ran this: [r...@deafeng3 html]# cobbler import --mirror=http://localhost/fedorainstall/ --name=Fedora11 /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/CacheRegion.py:30: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import md5 unsupported protocol [r...@deafeng3 html]# cobbler sync /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/CacheRegion.py:30: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import md5 What is the above telling me? Does it mean the import action failed? -------------------------- Possibly related to the above, when I list /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg I see this structure: [r...@deafeng3 pxelinux.cfg]# ls -al total 12 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 2009-06-28 15:14 . drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 4096 2009-06-28 15:14 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 211 2009-06-28 15:14 default [r...@deafeng3 pxelinux.cfg]# cat default DEFAULT menu PROMPT 0 MENU TITLE Cobbler | http://cobbler.et.redhat.com TIMEOUT 200 TOTALTIMEOUT 6000 ONTIMEOUT local LABEL local MENU LABEL (local) MENU DEFAULT LOCALBOOT 0 MENU end ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the Toshiba laptop, there is nothing in the DVD drive (first boot device), the hard drive is blank (second boot device), nothing is in the floppy drive (third boot device), so the machine defaults to "NETWORK" as the fourth boot device. Here is what I see on the screen: Intel (R) Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 Copyright (C) 1997-2001, Intel Corporation PXE:E61: Media Test Failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM How do I get TFTP working? I think there needs to be a wiki page that can walk new users like me through a Cobbler-based install on a remote machine. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
