Hi,

2010/4/11 Jonathan Sabo <[email protected]>:
> I wanted to add the ability to import VMware ESX 4 update 1 with
> cobbler import.

I got this running by manually creating a pxelinux.cfg/... file based
on this documentation
http://vm-help.com/esx40i/PXE_install.php

Mine actually looks like this:

        kernel ESXi4/mboot.c32
        append ESXi4/vmkboot.gz --- ESXi4/vmkernel.gz ---
ESXi4/sys.vgz --- ESXi4/cim.vgz --- ESXi4/ienviron.tgz ---
ESXi4/image.tgz --- ESXi4/install.tgz --- ESXi4/oem.tgz

This worked fine for the installations I needed to do.
I never got it running from cobbler because cobbler has quite strict
requirements on the OS: it needs both a kernel and an initrd And based
on this you don't have an initrd at all.

...
> [r...@localhost ~]# cobbler distro report --name=vmware-esx4u1-x86_64
> Name                           : vmware-esx4u1-x86_64
> Architecture                   : x86_64
> Breed                          : vmware
> Comment                        : esx4.1
> Initrd                         :
> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/vmware-esx4u1/isolinux/initrd.img
> Kernel                         :
> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/vmware-esx4u1/isolinux/vmlinuz

Where did you get those two files from?
What were they called in the original distribution?

-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten,

Niels Basjes
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