Robert L Cochran wrote: > On 06/29/2009 04:55 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote: > >> Robert L Cochran wrote: >> >> >>> On 06/29/2009 10:25 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>> I should have used >>>>> >>>>> cobbler import --path=/var/www/html/fedorainstall --name=Fedora11 >>>>> --arch=i386 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Don't do this. Use either a mounted DVD or an rsync mirror. >>>> >>>> --Michael >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I'm a little confused. That path is indeed a mounted DVD...it's loop >>> mounted to /var/www/html/fedorainstall. Am I still doing this wrong? >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Are you sure? Why would you mount a DVD under /var/www/html and not /mnt ? >> >> > > Oh, I see. Well if you mount the DVD under the web server's document > root, like this: > > mount -o loop /home/rlc/Download/Fedora-11-i386/Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso > /var/www/html/fedorainstall > > Then of course you can install Fedora 11 to a machine over the network, > using the "medialess install" method discussed in the Fedora 11 > installation guide.
If you are using Cobbler, the whole purpose of such an application to do network installs, you should be using cobbler's instructions and not the Fedora 11 media guide. Just go with the Cobbler documentation. > Also you can see a list of files and access the > entire document tree of the DVD and download those files over http if > you use this method. The Cobbler wiki simply suggests loop mounting the > DVD, the wiki doesn't say where exactly to mount it on. So I mounted it > on /var/www/html/fedorainstall as I was accustomed to, then I fed > cobbler this incantation: > > The import command will copy the content into web-readable space. It uses /var/www/cobbler, in fact, and already has Apache configured to serve content up out of this location. It also offers up numerous other services, such as a dynamic kickstart templating engine, that are served dynamically, not out of files. Anyway, the point of Cobbler is to be glue around things you need to do for installation purposes, so you don't need to know how to set those things up yourself.... this is one of those things. > cobbler import --path=/var/www/html/fedorainstall --name=Fedora11 --arch=i386 > > and that did indeed seem to generate quite a lot of cobbler output to the > terminal. I can post screenshots or logfiles if those exist of what I'm > talking about if I'm still being confusing. > > It posts a lot of output because it's creating the network accessible copy of the tree for you. IMHO it's not a good idea to leave ISOs mounted in webroot. That all being said, where you mounted it is unimportant, your import probably worked fine, in which case you can unmount it and will be good to go. > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
