[cobbler] Newbie setup question.

2013-10-01 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi. Is there any documentation on what the standard snippets that come with cobbler do, what inputs they need from cobbler, etc? I'm having trouble with snippets network_config and post_install_network_config. I've managed the get the former working (albeit not cleanly) but not the latter.

[cobbler] cobbler repo add problem.

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Johnson
x27;t even looking in the repo. I see no other logged errors that would point to anything blatantly obvious in the configuration. What am I missing? Help appreciated. Thanks. Chris Johnson. ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org

[cobbler] cobbler repo add problem.

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Johnson
x27;t even looking in the repo. I see no other logged errors that would point to anything blatantly obvious in the configuration. What am I missing? Help appreciated. Chris Johnson. ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://

Re: [cobbler] Creating VM's under ESXi5.5

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On 2/18/14, 12:55 PM, Vruwink, Timothy Roger wrote: Hello - I am not finding much information with regards to provisioning guest VM’s under a VMware vCenter 5.5 cluster (esxi 5.5 hosts) using cobbler. I have Cobbler installed as a VM, and was able to PXE boot a guest VM, and install a very

Re: [cobbler] Creating VM's under ESXi5.5

2014-02-18 Thread Chris Johnson
On 2/18/2014 2:12 PM, Vruwink, Timothy Roger wrote: I may not be describing what I want clearly. I just wanted to know if there was a way in Cobbler to define your Virtual machine settings (specifically for Vmware vcenter 5.5) - things like CPU, Ram, network cards etc. All the “virtualized”

Re: [cobbler] v 2.40 on centos 6.4

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Johnson
Have you run cobbler check? Is iptables running? Make sure iptables is turned off. service iptables save service iptables stop chkconfig --del iptables as root. Chris J. (And yes, the particular error should have a better desription) Greetings, running Centos6 and installed cobbler and c

Re: [cobbler] v 2.40 on centos 6.4

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Johnson
n Doyle <mailto:j...@addthis.com>> wrote: yes, the output above was from cobbler check iptables is not running On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Chris Johnson <mailto:rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com>> wrote: Have you run cobbler check? Is iptables running? Make s

Re: [cobbler] v 2.40 on centos 6.4

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Johnson
You can also turn the firewall off by editing /etc/sysconfig/system-config-firewall and changing --enabled to --disabled and saving then rebooting. Chris J. I'm assuming you have httpd running as well as cobblerd and that you've checked ports 80 and 25151 with nmap or telnet to see that the

[cobbler] cobbler/koan and possibly puppet

2014-03-31 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi. Has anyone tried (or succeeded) to put cobbler and koan up on OS X at all? It has Python. Reasons are mixed but I'd like to use it to provision a number of CentOS boxes. Puppet to if it's been done. Chris J. ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@

[cobbler] Installing Ubuntu from cobbler.

2014-07-09 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi, I haven't kept up with this thread as closely as I'd like, Cobbler was not originally written with Ubuntu in mind, I believe it was a CentOS tool at first. And I have cobbler running on a VBox VM provisioning a virtual mini-cluster with CentOS across several real hosts as well as puppet. I'

Re: [cobbler] CentOS 7 install failure

2014-10-06 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi, Don't know if this last post made it. I've narrowed it down to something in the network_config, pre and post SNIPPETS. I have seen bug report 1117640 however no data is missing as in that case, I've done a cobbler system getks and all the data is there as far as I can tell. I pulled a

Re: [cobbler] CentOS 7 install failure

2014-10-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On 10/6/14, 1:44 PM, Alan Evangelista wrote: On 10/06/2014 12:41 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: I've narrowed it down to something in the network_config, pre and post SNIPPETS. I have seen bug report 1117640 however no data is missing as in that case, I've done a cobbler system getks an

Re: [cobbler] CentOS 7 install failure

2014-10-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On 10/6/14, 1:44 PM, Alan Evangelista wrote: On 10/06/2014 12:41 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: I've narrowed it down to something in the network_config, pre and post SNIPPETS. I have seen bug report 1117640 however no data is missing as in that case, I've done a cobbler system getks an

Re: [cobbler] CentOS 7 install failure

2014-10-06 Thread Chris Johnson
On 10/6/14, 10:40 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 10/06/2014 08:29 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: Ok, sorry about that. Here is a url for the getks http://pastebin.com/w1cq3TKX What gets written to /tmp/pre_install_network_config ? I wonder if get_ifname is failing. Sure you have the mac addr

Re: [cobbler] CentOS 7 install failure

2014-10-07 Thread Chris Johnson
On 10/6/14, 10:40 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 10/06/2014 08:29 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: Ok, sorry about that. Here is a url for the getks http://pastebin.com/w1cq3TKX What gets written to /tmp/pre_install_network_config ? I wonder if get_ifname is failing. Sure you have the mac addr

[cobbler] if_gateway vs gateway

2014-12-01 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi. On earlier versions of cobbler there was an if_gateway_ and an appropriate switch in cobbler system add for setting it. And this did what you'd expect, it put the GATEWAY shell variable assignment in the ifcfg_ file. So I took my backup serveer and put C7.0 on and the newest cobbler an

Re: [cobbler] if_gateway vs gateway

2014-12-13 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi, I have --bootproto=static in the kickstart if that's what you mean. The current version of cobbler I have running is 2.6.5-9.1, C6.5 is CentOS 6.5 and C7 is CentOS 7. Chis On 12/01/2014 01:25 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: Hi. On earlier versions of cobbler there was an if_gateway_

Re: [cobbler] if_gateway vs gateway

2014-12-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On 12/13/2014 11:59 AM, Chris Johnson wrote: On 12/01/2014 01:25 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: On earlier versions of cobbler there was an if_gateway_ and an appropriate switch in cobbler system add for setting it. And this did what you'd expect, it put the GATEWAY shell variable assig

Re: [cobbler] if_gateway vs gateway

2014-12-14 Thread Chris Johnson
Regarding Cobbler CLI, there is no --bootproto option in cobbler system add, you are confusing (1) the kickstart option with (2) the Cobbler system's network interface option. There is a --static option in cobbler system add which sets the boolean I mentioned before. However, it could be chang

Re: [cobbler] if_gateway vs gateway

2014-12-14 Thread Chris Johnson
On 12/14/14 4:15 PM, Alan Evangelista wrote: So, your system has the static boolean option and the if_gateway option set for the network interface you are using to netboot and the network interface's gateway is not being written to /etc/sysconfig? Regards, Alan It was previously written

[cobbler] kickstart syntax error

2015-05-28 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi. Been pounding my head for a week on this one. Have cobbler 2.6.8 on CentOS 7 trying to install 7 which used to work. So somebody changed something. I'm getting the very unhelpful This kickstart had errors that prevented it from ... The only thing I can find in cobbler.log, just prior t

Re: [cobbler] kickstart syntax error

2015-05-29 Thread Chris Johnson
>> wrote: On 28.05.2015 [18:35:54 -0400], Chris Johnson wrote: > Hi. > > Been pounding my head for a week on this one. > > Have cobbler 2.6.8 on CentOS 7 trying to install 7 which used to > work. So somebody changed something. > >

[cobbler] Ubuntu install with cobbler.

2016-02-13 Thread Chris Johnson
convert it to desktop but that it's going well either. Help appreciated. Tnx. -- Chris Johnson rchristophejohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin, now aspiring writer God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire) __

[cobbler] Re: cobbler sync - Generating dhcpd.conf fail

2016-04-26 Thread Chris Johnson
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[cobbler] python-simplejson

2016-09-20 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi. I'm probably going to get yelled by someone but at this point I jut don't care any more. Would someone please either show me a file suitable for /etc/yum.prepos.d/ or point me to one for python-simplejson? Or of python-simplejson included in something then what and where is that please?

[cobbler] Re: python-simplejson

2016-09-20 Thread Chris Johnson
On 9/20/16 2:38 PM, Matt Luettgen wrote: Which distro? Oh, sorry, 7.0 but I'm moving to 7.2-1511 so both or just the latter. -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin, now, writer History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. (Winston Chur

[cobbler] Re: python-simplejson

2016-09-21 Thread Chris Johnson
. I'll check both. Hopefully I can consolidate. Many thanks. -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin, now, writer Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Mark Twain) ___ cobbler mai

[cobbler] After install issue.

2016-12-18 Thread Chris Johnson
Hi. Strictly speaking this isn't a cobbler problem. But I thought somebody might know a way to get around it in kickstart. I'm installing CentOS 7.3.1611. That works. But when the system just installed boots up, it is asking a question about licensing on screen. I have to answer it on sc

[cobbler] dracut fails to mount root fs.

2017-02-20 Thread Chris Johnson
nged a bit from 7 to 7.3.1611. I tried the sample default cobbler install. Doesn't help much I get a medal failure error. It's just these one VM. I'm at something of a loss here. Help? Thank you. -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin, now, writer /Whene

[cobbler] patch needed.

2017-07-18 Thread Chris Johnson
. Certainly not the one I used. Can anybody provide a yum repo file suitable for /etc/yum.repos.d I can use to get THE most current cobbler with the fix, please. Hopefully this will be right off the current cobbler home site. BIG THANK YOU! -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin

[cobbler] Complete path for a cobbler import of 7.4.1708 for x86_65.

2018-01-20 Thread Chris Johnson
Trying to find the complete path for cobbler import of an rsync, or whatever works, for CentOS 7.4 of the x86_64 architecture.  All the mirrors I've tried simply don't have one.  There is no x86_64 subtree.  Does anyone have a complete path specification?  And why isn't it the mirrors? Thank