Thanks Gonzalo and Michael. yum_post_install_mirror: 1 was already set in
the /etc/cobbler/settings (cobbler-2.0.11). I mirrored epel repo and added
it to the profile:
cobbler profile report
Name : Centos_6.0_x86_64_Bit
Comment :
DHCP Tag : default
Distribution : Centos_6.0_x86_64
Enable PXE Menu? : 1
Kernel Options : {}
Kernel Options (Post Install) : {}
Kickstart : /distros/kickstarts/centos60.ks
Kickstart Metadata : {}
Management Classes : []
Name Servers : []
Name Servers Search Path : []
Owners : ['admin']
Parent Profile :
Red Hat Management Key : <<inherit>>
Red Hat Management Server : <<inherit>>
Repos : ['puppet-epel-6']
Server Override : <<inherit>>
Template Files : {}
Virt Auto Boot : 1
Virt Bridge : xenbr0
Virt CPUs : 1
Virt File Size(GB) : 5
Virt Path :
Virt RAM (MB) : 512
Virt Type : xenpv
unfortunately this hasn't resolved the "puppet package doesn't exist" error.
Things started happening when i
added $yum_repo_stanza to my ks file; dependencies were resolved and the
installation finally started.
so i though everything was good until i received the error at 50% of the
installation: "fatal error occurred
while installing initscripts package", installation aborted. so i went back to
the basic os installation
(only base repo, no external repos) and it worked like a charm. kind of running
out of ideas. perhaps
my ks file is missing something?
You want to add the EPEL repos and then, in the CentOS profile, you'll see a
select box where you can select what repos to enable during installation. You
select all the repos you want in there (such as EPEL, Puppetlabs, etc). Those
repos will not persist after installation, though I believe there is a variable
that makes them stick around after install (yum_config_something).
Good luck!
Gonzalo
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:39 PM, George Pitich <[email protected]> wrote:
i've been trying to kickstart centos 6 (pxe) with cobbler for some time but
haven't been successful. namely if installation doesn't require any external
repos (like epel or rpmforge) kickstart works great. however when installation
needs some packages provided in external repos (epel) i don't know how to
specify such a request.
>
>I thought that:
>
>cobbler repo add --name=EPEL-x86_64
>--mirror=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64 --mirror-locally=N
>
>
>would fetch dependencies during kickstart (puppet) but that simply didn't
>happen (did cobbler reposync), installation process would complain that puppet
>package didn't exist. excerpt from the ks file:
>
>
>url --url http://server-ip/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/
>
>
>%packages
>@base
>@compat-libraries
>@core
>@puppet
>
>Os and core packages are served from a local yum repo that resides on the same
>box as cobbler:
>
>also:
>
>
>cobbler add --name=Centos_6.0_x86_64
>--kernel=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
>--initrd=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
>cobbler distro add --name=Centos_6.0_x86_64
>--kernel=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
>--initrd=/distros/CentOS/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
>
>cobbler profile add --name=Centos_6.0_x86_64_Bit --distro=Centos_6.0_x86_64
>--kickstart=/distros/kickstarts/centos60.ks
>
>
>I can browse the repo without any issues (repo was created from 2 centos 6 dvd
>iso files). At the moment i am mirroring epel through the cobbler locally.
>once mirror is done i'll create the profile but not sure if this is the only
>thing required?
>
>
>i'm quite new to cobbler and would appreciate any help on this matter.
>
>thx.
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