On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:38:51PM -0700, Cleaver, Japheth wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Christian Horn > > Subject: Re: cobbler with no local mirroring? > > > > We also mirror ourself and let cobbler just work on that. > > For it to manage pxefiles etc. it has to know about vmlinuz/initrd of the > > distros thou, manage profiles. > > I am not sure what funktionality you would like to get from cobbler without > > having pxe/dhcp-management - and for this cobbler needs to know about the > > distro/profile objects. > > > > Christian > > > Sorry to resurrect a thread from a while ago, but I'm dealing with the > same issue here. We've got a nice fat internal mirror with plenty of > resources. We added a repo using --available-as [..] > > Even if we have to specify the location for each distro manually still, > I'm fine with that... but I'd like to be able to specify a URL here (in > lieu of an Absolute path) and have cobbler simply pull that down as > it's doing its sync -- > e.g., > http://rhel.mirrors.example.net/5.90Server/i386/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
Considered simply mounting the distro as offered by the remote server via nfs onto the cobbler-box? If the remote box only offers port80-services even offering the distro also as webdav and mounting it on the cobbler-box could work. Christian _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
