Paul Company wrote:
What's the case?
That NFS is the only supported "access method" for adding a distro
without copying the contents locally?
Paul
No, you can use http as well:
# cobbler import --path=/mnt/cobbler_f11_iso --available-as=http://url
--name=f11
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
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