Locane, No I get the Live CD stuff and its purpose :) I was having problems importing/KOAN installs of CentOS/Fedora/RHEL Atomic ISOs and thought I'd try to use a "normal" live CD first then try the aforementioned.
Atomic is a stripped down OS and works very well with Docker - but the ISOs are just like a Live CD and I'm averse to doing manual pt and clicky installs ;) ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Locane" <loc...@gmail.com> > To: "cobbler mailing list" <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org> > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 11:08:53 AM > Subject: Re: [cobbler] Has anyone successfully imported an Atomic image and > used KOAN to install a VM? > Ok I think you might be confused. A livecd's purpose is to load in to memory > and be an operating system to work with temporarily - many installers are > "live" OS's, but that doesn't make them livecd's. > If you're just trying to install an OS to a disk, and don't have a pre-made > livecd image you want to temporarily load via cobbler, that's a different > operation / instruction set. > My tip is for if you have a pre-made Live OS image that you want to load - I > suppose that could be an installer, but that's typically not the way to do > that. I make my boot.iso images with the Lorax package (livemedia-creator) > and then import them in to cobbler with "cobbler distro add", and add that > kernel parameter. > I don't know what Atomic is. If it's an OS you're trying to install, then > what I've said won't help. If it's a self-contained image that you boot to, > then it might. > On Oct 13, 2015 7:57 AM, "Scot Floess" < sflo...@redhat.com > wrote: > > Locane, > > > Awesome - thanks for the help! I will try this later today... > > > Quick question, does that perform an actual unattended install or does a > > GUI > > start up as if I wanted to boot via CD? > > > The reason I'm asking is I'm trying to use KOAN to kick start this > > unattended > > (as in not needing to manually intervene). > > > Anyway - will try this here shortly... I did have "root=/boot.iso" (well > > used > > the iso name I imported) but as mentioned previously, I'm trying to use a > > kickstart (ultimately I'll be putting in some additional templating stuff > > which is why I am trying to do this in the fashion I described)... > > > Appreciate it! > > > Flossy > > > > From: "Locane" < loc...@gmail.com > > > > > > > To: "cobbler mailing list" < cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:48:12 AM > > > > > > Subject: Re: [cobbler] Has anyone successfully imported an Atomic image > > > and > > > used KOAN to install a VM? > > > > > > Hey Scot, I have a working CentOS 7 livecd and didn't need to edit the > > > kickstart, just the kernerl parameters. See below from my query to this > > > list > > > about a month ago. Maybe it will help. > > > > > > It worked after I tweaked it - I had to add the kernel parameter > > > "root=live:/boot.iso" to the PXE config line, where "boot.iso" is the > > > name > > > of the original ISO that livemedia-creator made before getting PXE > > > converted. > > > > > > For others finding this on the internets, I had to make a profile called > > > "livecd" with the distro, and then I had to add the kernel option to the > > > profile with the following command: > > > > > > cobbler profile edit --name livecd --kopts="root=live:/boot.iso" > > > > > > On Oct 13, 2015 6:28 AM, "Scot Floess" < sflo...@redhat.com > wrote: > > > > > > > All, > > > > > > > > > > I have been trying now for quite some time to import an Atomic ISO into > > > > Cobbler. I followed the directions here: > > > > https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd > > > > > > > > > > Initially I ran into a number of "issues" (mostly with my understanding > > > > - > > > > or > > > > lack thereof) and decided to try to import a live CentOS image (vs > > > > atomic). > > > > I more or less got that working with KOAN, but in trying to use Atomic > > > > I > > > > am > > > > stumped on what to put in my kickstart for the "--url" option. With the > > > > normal CentOS live, I am using this: > > > > > > > > > > url --url= http://mirrors.sonic.net/centos/7/os/x86_64 > > > > > > > > > > For atomic, I tried to use: > > > > > > > > > > url --url= http://mirrors.sonic.net/centos/7/atomic/x86_64 > > > > > > > > > > Apparently its not an install tree. > > > > > > > > > > I'm 100% certain I am doing something completely wrong here - but was > > > > wondering what folks may have done or if they had any luck importing > > > > Atomic > > > > ISOs? Without the --url in my atomic.ks, it won't install with this > > > > error > > > > "Cannot find install source in kickstart file, aborting." > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > Flossy > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > Make It So Number One > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > cobbler mailing list > > > > > > > > > > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > > > > > > > > > > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > cobbler mailing list > > > > > > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > > > > > > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > > > > > -- > > > Make It So Number One > > > _______________________________________________ > > > cobbler mailing list > > > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > > > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler -- Make It So Number One
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