Re: [CentOS] Setting up new spacewalk server
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 pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 2/17/2015 12:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2015-02-17 22:26 GMT+02:00 Eckert, Dougdoug.eck...@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. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- *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.eck...@dowjones.com* al...@dowjones.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Setting up new spacewalk server
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 FilesystemSize 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 67 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.eck...@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 pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 2/17/2015 12:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2015-02-17 22:26 GMT+02:00 Eckert, Dougdoug.eck...@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. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- *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.eck...@dowjones.com* al...@dowjones.com -- *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.eck...@dowjones.com* al...@dowjones.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Setting up new spacewalk server
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.eck...@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 FilesystemSize 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 67 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.eck...@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 pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 2/17/2015 12:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2015-02-17 22:26 GMT+02:00 Eckert, Dougdoug.eck...@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. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- *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.eck...@dowjones.com* al...@dowjones.com -- *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.eck...@dowjones.com* al...@dowjones.com -- *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.eck...@dowjones.com* al...@dowjones.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Setting up new spacewalk server
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? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Setting up new spacewalk server
2015-02-17 22:26 GMT+02:00 Eckert, Doug doug.eck...@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 ? Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Setting up new spacewalk server
On 2/17/2015 12:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2015-02-17 22:26 GMT+02:00 Eckert, Dougdoug.eck...@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. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
