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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Peter Loron <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the responses. I'm not sure where the fault lies, but in any > event, the cobblerd process shouldn't silently stop. > > I worked around it by manually adding the distro and profile as > mentioned below, and manually copying the contents of the CD over. > > -Pete > > On 09/23/2010 11:11 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> Are you sure this is a cobbler issue and not a VM issue? (such as NFS or >> whatever you are using for a path). >> >> Secondly you can do this: >> Cobbler import --path=/mnt --available-as=http(or nfs)://some-url >> --name=CentOS55 >> >> Personally I preferred this method: >> Cobbler distro add --name=<name> --available-as=http://<myurl> >> --initrd=</location of the initrd> --kernel=<location of kernel> >> --arch=<arch> >> >> The reason I prefer the second method is because it doesn't copy any >> files, rather allows me to setup my own tree as I wish and simply make >> cobbler aware of it. >> >> >> >> Marek Dohojda >> 720-308-8622 >> >> 77 68 6f 20 69 73 20 4a 6f 68 6e 20 47 61 6c 74 3f 0d 0a >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Loron >> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:02 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Failure during import >> >> Hello, all. I have a Cobbler 2.003 install on CentOS 5.5 x86_64 in a VM >> (VirtualBox) that I am trying to get to import a distro. I have the >> CentOS 5.5 DVD mounted, and I issue this command: >> >> cobbler import --name=CentOS55 --path=/mnt >> >> The import goes fine until it hangs forever (or at least overnight) on >> the "createrepo" step. The cobblerd service also shut down at this >> point. The disto appears to be imported in the web ui, and I can select >> it and start the PXE booted install, but it shortly stops with the >> Kickstart error "Unknown Url method $tree". >> >> Any pointers for fixing whatever is broken here? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Pete >> > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
