What's the case? That NFS is the only supported "access method" for adding a distro without copying the contents locally?
Paul On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Simon Woolsgrove<[email protected]> wrote: > >>--- [email protected] wrote: > >>From: Paul Company <[email protected]> >>To: cobbler mailing list <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: Adding a Distribution without copying the contents over? >>Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 23:05:47 -0700 > >>When you say "see them" you mean "ability to access them via a >>transport protocol" or what I liked to call an "access method". NFS is >>just one type of "access method". Wouldn't it be good to support http, >>https, ftp, rsync, ssh. Have you ever tried to NFS mount something on >>the Internet. > >>If you see my original post, I thought "--available-as=nfs://etc." >>would do as you described, but it doesn't. > >>So what is the difference between using --available-as=nfs:// and NFS >>mounting the path and then using import on the nfs mount point? > >>Paul > > I think this is the case > > --available-as points to the location rather than importing the entire tree, > which I think you want, vs the latter which would import the entire tree. > > Cobbler creates a ks_meta value tree which is substitues (in the example ks > for this path) > > >From your post > > # mkdir -p /distros/CentOS-5.3/x86_64 > # cobbler import --path=/distros/CentOS-5.3/x86_64 --arch=x86_64 > --name=CentOS-5.3-x86_64 \ > --available-as=nfs://myserver1:/media > or > # cobbler import --path=/distros/CentOS-5.3/x86_64 --arch=x86_64 > --name=CentOS-5.3-x86_64 \ > --available-as=http://myserver1/media > > Does /distros/CentOS-5.3/x86_64 have an actual copy of the media, as cobbler > still needs to find the boot initrd, kernel, yum repo's etc ? > > It should probably give a message that it does not find anything... > > As others have pointed you do not have to use import and could use > distro/profile and use your own ks_meta variables to locate the data tree > whci can be compeltely seperate from the cobbler server if thats what you > want. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
