Hi Bob, That makes much more sense. My appologies on miss-understanding your earlier post..
I would recommend that you look at using the 2.2.2 version of cobbler if you can. Generally Cobbler is fairly isolated in it's dependencies, other than that the createrepo command creates repos's readable by recent versions of yum. If you can't find a build of it online, you can check out the branch from github, checkout the branch at the 2.2.2 tag and then run 'make rpms' and it should get you everything you need to run it on the fc14 box as your server. (there are a few dependencies you may need to satisfy for building the package (pyYaml comes to mind) The older versions of cobbler worked, but they seem to have trouble managing the import process from the 6.x dvd's, As well the updates in 2.2.2 are much nicer than the earlier versions. James On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Bob Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James! > > I want to use cobbler (running on a laptop that is running Fedora 14) to > manage the installation of CentOS 6.2 x86_64 on a different host. There are > two different hosts, the laptop runs Fedora 14 and cobbler, and the other > machine will, I hope, be able to install CentOS x86_64 -- if it can get the > installation files from the cobbler server. > > My question is whether the cobbler version which is running on Fedora 14 > is just too outdated to manage this. Will it work okay? or, do I need to > first upgrade to the latest Fedora, thereby getting an updated cobbler > installation, and then attempt to install CentOS 6.2 on the other machine? > > Please pardon my lack of clarity. I should try to write better. > > Bob > > > On 5/21/12 5:12 PM, James Clendenan wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > Actually installing Redhat 6.x would actually place you in the reverse > direction, as Rhel6 (on which centos6.2 is based) is actually ~ Fedora Core > version 12.5, so you're FC14 packages are well newer than the version > you're trying to move to. > > You should be able to netboot the laptop if you have a cobbler server > elsewhere with control of dhcp and PXE, but generally cobbler is a server > side application that manages network installs, and not something you > should be running on the client workstations. > > Please let me know if this makes sense, or I've miss-interpreted your > question. > > James > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Bob Cochran <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to do a network installation of CentOS 6.2 from the Cobbler >> version that is installed on my Fedora 14 (x86_64) laptop. Due to various >> events, I never upgraded my laptop to a more recent version of Fedora. >> Right now, I want to get CentOS installed on a server box so that I can run >> virtualization going. The server doesn't have an optical drive, I prefer >> network installations if possible. Is it possible to successfully install >> CentOS 6.2 from Fedora 14? >> >> Thanks >> >> Bob Cochran >> Greenbelt, Maryland, USA >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing > [email protected]https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > >
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