Tim French wrote: > Hi Michael: > > Thanks for the quick response. > > I'm new to Cobber but it's exactly what I've been looking for. > This is a new install. > > I checked the /etc/httpd/conf.d for .rpmnew files and there are none. > I looked at the files in /etc/httpd/conf.d but maybe I don't know what > I'm looking for. > I also read https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/ModPythonDetails good > info. > > I get that /var/www/cobbler is volitile and I should not put anything in > that tree. > > > The kickstart data is being created, I used > > cobbler profile getks --name=RHEL5.2_server-i386 > and the data is fine. > > My problem is that the ks.cfg file is not being created. >
Correct, the kickstart file never exists on the filesystem. It is served dynamically by the magic URLs mentioned on the ModPythonDetails page. > Also, there is no kickstarts dir under /var/www/cobbler > Nor should there be, in any version after 1.0. Your personally kickstart templates live outside /var/www and are rendered by Cobbler, creating dynamically served installer content. > I just successfully kickstarted my first box but I had to > > cobbler profile edit --name=RHEL5.2_server-i386 > --kickstart=/etc/cobbler/rh5_with_no_install_num.ks > cobbler profile getks --name=RHEL5.2_server-i386 > > /var/www/html/mystuff/ks.cfg > cobbler profile edit --name=RHEL5.2_server-i386 > --kickstart=http://cobbler_server/mystuff/ks.cfg > > Then the koan worked fine. > > But if I just > cobbler profile edit --name=RHEL5.2_server-i386 > --kickstart=/etc/cobbler/rh5_with_no_install_num.ks > > koan gives my the Cannot find ks.cfg error > Ah,it looks like your koan is downlevel. "yum update" koan as well and it will know about the new URLs patterns. > So, the kickstart data is being created, the ks.cfg file is not. > Right, see above, and I think you'll be set :) Let me know if not and we'll get it straightened out. --Michael > Timothy French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Office of Information Technology, University of Utah > Key fingerprint = 838C F04D AAC8 6D9C 7ED7 2629 925E BF3E 1FD1 826C > This is a bit kludgy, so you might want to rethink why you want to do it. > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
