[Spacewalk-list] kickstart hostname

2010-04-28 Thread Frédéric SOSSON
Hello, I would like to create a standard kickstart file and have the possibility to enter hostname at boot time. Is that possible? regards, Frédéric ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com

Re: [Spacewalk-list] kickstart hostname

2010-04-28 Thread James Hogarth
You have a couple of options. If reverse dns is configured properly the hostname of the system will be looked up from that. You can use a pre-script to parse the kernel arguments and then import a network configuration file for kickstart. Give it a couple of hours and i'll post my scripts to

Re: [Spacewalk-list] kickstart hostname

2010-04-28 Thread Colin Coe
Choose an interactive install? You could also provide this on the installer kernel command line. 2010/4/28 Frédéric SOSSON fsos...@gmail.com Hello, I would like to create a standard kickstart file and have the possibility to enter hostname at boot time. Is that possible? regards,

Re: [Spacewalk-list] kickstart hostname

2010-04-28 Thread Frédéric SOSSON
yes i'm look for this possibilité, you know the command at kernel line? On 28 April 2010 09:58, Colin Coe colin@gmail.com wrote: Choose an interactive install?  You could also provide this on the installer kernel command line. 2010/4/28 Frédéric SOSSON fsos...@gmail.com Hello, I would

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mirror of Spacewalk client packages

2010-04-28 Thread Michael Mraka
Sascha Bendix wrote: % Hi, % % I want to use spacewalk in my organisation with approx. 500 Systems. For % quality reasons we mirror all repositories we use. % % Is there a way to mirror the spacewalk client packages on % http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/ via rsync? No, only via http. You can use

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mirror of Spacewalk client packages

2010-04-28 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 04/26/2010 07:10 PM, Sascha Bendix wrote: Alternativly I know Spacewalk can manage software channels. But when installing a system the client package has to be installed first to get access to the software channel. Is there a way to give clients without a subscription access to a public

Re: [Spacewalk-list] kickstart hostname

2010-04-28 Thread James Hogarth
yes i'm look for this possibilité, you know the command at kernel line? On 28 April 2010 09:58, Colin Coe colin@gmail.com wrote: Choose an interactive install? You could also provide this on the installer kernel command line. An interactive installer limits the benefits of kickstarting

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk setup problems

2010-04-28 Thread Benedetto Vassallo
Hi, I have rebuilt some spacewalk 0.8 rpms to run it on a mainframe (s390x) Linux machine. This machine is running Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and have 4GB RAM. I have installed spacewalk with no problems, but when I run the command: spacewalk-setup --disconnected I get the following message: *

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk setup problems

2010-04-28 Thread James Hogarth
2010/4/28 Benedetto Vassallo vassa...@unipa.it: Hi, I have rebuilt some spacewalk 0.8 rpms to run it on a mainframe (s390x) Linux machine. This machine is running Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and have 4GB RAM. I have installed spacewalk with no problems, but when I run the command:

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk setup problems

2010-04-28 Thread James Hogarth
2010/4/28 Benedetto Vassallo vassa...@unipa.it: Hi, I have rebuilt some spacewalk 0.8 rpms to run it on a mainframe (s390x) Linux machine. This machine is running Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and have 4GB RAM. I have installed spacewalk with no problems, but when I run the command:

Re: [Spacewalk-list] kickstart hostname

2010-04-28 Thread Frédéric SOSSON
thanks, Colin Coe was talking about an way set hostname at: linux ks= line... do you know something about that parameters? On 28 April 2010 12:00, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: yes i'm look for this possibilité, you know the command at kernel line? On 28 April 2010 09:58, Colin

Re: [Spacewalk-list] kickstart hostname

2010-04-28 Thread James Hogarth
2010/4/28 Frédéric SOSSON fsos...@gmail.com: thanks, Colin Coe was talking about an way set hostname at: linux ks=  line... do you know something about that parameters? I remember this coming up on the list a few months or so back but don't recall if there is anything kickstart will pickup by

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk setup problems

2010-04-28 Thread Michael Mraka
Benedetto Vassallo wrote: Hi, I have rebuilt some spacewalk 0.8 rpms to run it on a mainframe (s390x) Linux machine. This machine is running Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and have 4GB RAM. I have installed spacewalk with no problems, but when I run the command: spacewalk-setup --disconnected I

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk setup problems

2010-04-28 Thread Benedetto Vassallo
Def. Quota James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com: 2010/4/28 Benedetto Vassallo vassa...@unipa.it: Hi, I have rebuilt some spacewalk 0.8 rpms to run it on a mainframe (s390x) Linux machine. This machine is running Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and have 4GB RAM. I have installed spacewalk with no

Re: [Spacewalk-list] redhat channels

2010-04-28 Thread Tom Brown
can somebody tell me how i can get also the redhat 5 channels into my spacewalk systems. i am certain google will help you here - !google mrepo ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk setup problems

2010-04-28 Thread Benedetto Vassallo
Def. Quota Michael Mraka michael.mr...@redhat.com: Benedetto Vassallo wrote: Hi, I have rebuilt some spacewalk 0.8 rpms to run it on a mainframe (s390x) Linux machine. This machine is running Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 and have 4GB RAM. I have installed spacewalk with no problems, but when I run

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Sizing

2010-04-28 Thread George Beech
Hello all, I've been looking around for some sizing information as I plan our spacewalk deployment. I've been able to find the size on disk information (192KB/client 64MB/channel) but what I am really interested in is at what number of clients does the 1GB OracleXE memory limitation come into

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Change from Oracle XE to 11gR2

2010-04-28 Thread Mike Hanby
I finally got around to migrating from Oracle XE to Oracle 11gR2. The operation was a success. Along the way I got to familiarize myself with Oracle again, I hadn't done much with Oracle since 2000. Here are my notes in case they help others on the list:

[Spacewalk-list] OT: Installing non-RHEL packages during kickstart

2010-04-28 Thread Jamie Bohr
Hello, I have searched around and found no reference to installing a custom RPM during kickstart installation from a Red Hat Satellite server. I am hoping someone that uses Spacewalk can help me. The unsigned RPM is associated with the channel and activation key yet does not get installed

Re: [Spacewalk-list] OT: Installing non-RHEL packages during kickstart

2010-04-28 Thread Brandon Perkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jamie Bohr wrote: Hello, I have searched around and found no reference to installing a custom RPM during kickstart installation from a Red Hat Satellite server. I am hoping someone that uses Spacewalk can help me. The unsigned RPM is

Re: [Spacewalk-list] OT: Installing non-RHEL packages during kickstart

2010-04-28 Thread James Hogarth
If it's unsigned it won't get installed via the packages section. You'll need a chroot post script with yum install --no-gpg-check package Check the right argument. On mobile and memory limited :) On Apr 28, 2010 6:16 PM, Jamie Bohr jamieb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have searched around and

Re: [Spacewalk-list] redhat channels

2010-04-28 Thread Jeffrey Watts
Rob, please read my prior post. You need to start googling and using the mailing list archive for answers. You waste our time by repeatedly asking questions that have been asked and answered since you joined the list. Jeffrey. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:57 AM, rob morrien rmorr...@xs4all.nl

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problems with the Perl Stack/pxt files

2010-04-28 Thread Joshua Roys
On 04/19/2010 11:10 AM, Merritt, Chad CTR US USJFCOM J7 wrote: I'm still attempting to get Spacewalk 0.8 on a RHEL 5 box to work.. Anything that uses the PXT files doesn't work and redirects me to the main spacewalk interface (i.e. after you log in). Hello, You can try setting ORACLE_HOME

Re: [Spacewalk-list] OT: Installing non-RHEL packages during kickstart

2010-04-28 Thread James Hogarth
Well I was close ;) been a while since I used it And since this is an ot thread anyway... Android iPhone ;) Still unless the op is dealing with old rpms that don't play nicely (i'm looking at you Sun with that rpm 3.x format package) it's better to gpg sign the rpms being made... it's very