CobblerTest
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Cobbler Howto:-
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help from:=
http://www.openskill.info/blog.php?ID=16 http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/08/10/cobbler-how-to-set-up-a-network-boot-server-in-10-minutes/ http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.php/3773596 http://www.kanarip.com/courses/Deploying_Linux_Using_Cobbler/
Centos 5.4 x86_64
yum -y update
Using the link: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/DownloadInstructions
Setup Cobbler Repositories:-
[root@test-plccg ~]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
. . .
. . .
[cobbler-stable]
name=Cobbler-Stable
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64
[cobbler-testing] name=Cobbler-Testing baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/testing/5/x86_64 . . . . . . [root@test-plccg ~]#
Install cobbler:-
[root@test-plccg ~]# yum -y install cobbler koan
[root@test-plccg cdimages]# ls CentOS-5.3-i386.DVD.iso CentOS-5.4-x86_64 CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso [root@test-plccg cdimages]#
service httpd restart
Import repository:-
cobbler import --mirror=/data/cdimages/CentOS-5.4-x86_64 --name=Centos5.4-x86_64
[root@test-plccg cdimages]# cobbler import --mirror=/data/cdimages/CentOS-5.4-x86_64 --name=Centos5.4-x86_64 . . .
. . .
repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2
2141520 100% 3.07MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#3468, to-check=2/3478)
repodata/primary.xml.gz
1189512 100% 1.67MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#3469, to-check=1/3478)
repodata/repomd.xml
2142 100% 3.09kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#3470, to-check=0/3478)
sent 4333936317 bytes received 76408 bytes 39580024.89 bytes/sec total size is 4333090152 speedup is 1.00
(adding distros)
- found content (breed=redhat) at /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/xen - creating new distro: Centos5.4-xen-x86_64 - creating new profile: Centos5.4-xen-x86_64 - found content (breed=redhat) at /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/pxeboot - creating new distro: Centos5.4-x86_64 - creating new profile: Centos5.4-x86_64 - creating new profile: rescue-Centos5.4-x86_64
(associating repos)
- traversing distro Centos5.4-xen-x86_64 - found content (breed=redhat) at /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/xen - descent into /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 - processing repo at : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 - need to process repo/comps: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 - looking for /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/repodata/*comps*.xml - createrepo -c cache --groupfile /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/repodata/comps.xml /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 3309/3309 - CentOS/sblim-cim-client-javadoc-1-35.el5.x86_64.rpm rpm64.rpm Saving Primary metadata Saving file lists metadata Saving other metadata - traversing distro Centos5.4-x86_64 - found content (breed=redhat) at /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/pxeboot - descent into /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 - processing repo at : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 - need to process repo/comps: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 - looking for /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/repodata/*comps*.xml - createrepo -c cache --groupfile /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/repodata/comps.xml /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 3309/3309 - CentOS/sblim-cim-client-javadoc-1-35.el5.x86_64.rpm rpm64.rpm Saving Primary metadata Saving file lists metadata Saving other metadata
(associating kickstarts)
- found content (breed=redhat) at /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/pxeboot - found content (breed=redhat) at /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/xen - found content (breed=redhat) at /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/pxeboot [root@test-plccg cdimages]#
Install the following using yum :-
yum -y install reposync yum-utils cman
Time for some configurations:-
vi /etc/cobbler/settings
(some settings)
service cobblerd restart
chkconfig --level 35 cobblerd on
cobbler check # important
End of day 1.
