Javier Palacios wrote: >>> Now, I'm trying to import Ubuntu 8.10 into Cobbler 1.4.2. >>> >>> With Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop ISO, no distro, no profile, no repo was made. >>> With Ubuntu 8.10 Server ISO, distro, profile, repo created, >>> but "os version" of distro is set "IntrepidIbex". >>> >>> >> Most likely it hasn't been tested with the desktop version. If someone >> with interest in those OS's would like to fix that, that would be great! >> > > Michael was right. > > Tests with ubuntu were done with the server media. I didn't try with the > desktop media due to good reasons. It is not an install media but a live media > that you can "copy" to your hard disk. As such, there are very little packages > there, and most of the space goes into the filesystem that the livecd will > mount. In particular, as there is no a base-files to guess the distro flavour, > no distro or profile can be created. And for the repo, even in the case it > were > created, it should content only the .deb whithin the live media, so it will > not > serve for provision a new system. >
We should probably put this up on the Wiki somewhere, or maybe we could make it also yield a friendly error message if someone tries that? Didn't know they only had live media for the desktop builds (Fedora has both, but yes, you don't import the live Fedora media either). > Javier Palacios > > P.S.: I've been appart from cobbler for a few months. I'm in the process to > get > updated, so hopefully I'll be soon in shape to contribute again to this stuff. > Good to hear -- I do believe we've missed you there. > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
