Hi: I realize that I am on the bleeding edge in attempting to use this technology under RHEL 5; however, I would really like to see this work as I have more than a few systems to administer.
What I have accomplished... I have a fresh installation of RHEL 5 x86_64. I added the EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) yum repository so that I could install cobbler, koan, puppet, etc. I am attempting to follow the instructions for configuring Stateless Linux for Fedora Core 7 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinux/HOWTO) as closely as I can. I followed the recommendations for disk partitions and I believe that I have successfully installed cobbler. I was able to mount the RHEL 5.1 dvd iso image on the 'cobbler import' command appears to be creating the correct distributions. A quick look at the Cobbler WebUI shows me that I now have two distributions at my disposal: RHEL-5.1-x86_64 and RHEL-5.1-xen-x86_64. Where I am... Moving on to the "Stateless Linux Create Client Image" step, I am having a rough time with anaconda while trying to instantiate a profile for NFS clients. When I try the command... anaconda -G -m nfs://var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL-5.1-x86_64 \ --rootpath=/export/NFSroots/RHEL-5.1-x86_64 \ --kickstart=/var/lib/cobbler/rhel-diskless.cfg I run in to the following difficulties... 1. First, Anaconda complains that it has a KeyError installing the instClass 'anaconda'. I tracked this down to needing to set the environment variable ANACONDA_PRODUCTPATH=client before executing the afore mentioned command. 2. Anaconda then complains about not being able to find /mnt/runtime/usr/sbin. I am not sure if this was the right answer, but I created a symbolic link in /mnt to .. in order resolve this. 3. Next I get a rather nasty anacdump regarding 'NoneType' no having an attribute 'security' from /usr/lib/yum-plugins/security.py. Again, I am not familiar enough with Anaconda to effectively troubleshoot this issue but... I simply 'return' before the offending calls to ysp_check_func_enter(...). 4. And now, the show stopper... After Anaconda appears to make it most of the way through preparing the installation, I get a fatal crash involving an attempt to convert the downloaded size of of the package 'java-1.5.0-ibm-src.i386'. This package is also a part of EPEL, so I am a bit confused as to why it is even being included, but I am even more confused about Anaconda's failure to correctly parse its installed size. I would really like to see this technology work, and I have read in the RHEL 5.1 release notes that the RHEL is now ready for use with Stateless Linux. Also, I tried to install Fedora Core 7 and use that as the Stateless Server, but the Fedora version of Anaconda seemed incapable of dealing with the RHEL 5.1 installation. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Warren -- Warren W. Thompson the Hammers Company, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hammers.com/ _______________________________________________ Stateless-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/stateless-list
