On 7/6/12 10:36 PM, Ed - 0x1b, Inc. wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Bob Cochran<[email protected]> wrote:
A couple days ago I successfully installed Fedora 17 using Cobbler, and I
have "Everything" and "updates" repositories all set up to install against.
I am very pleased with the result. Performance was fast and my test laptop
is fully up to date! Thanks to all of you for your help and advice to me to
date. Now I'm moving on to my next challenge: installing CentOS 6.2 on a
test desktop.
Bob
Bob - did you use your own mirrors or those at fedoraproject? I have
local mirrors, but unfortunately the fedoraproject repos remain in the
yum.repos.d directory. Other than that Fedora 17 works - once the
networking snippet is fixed.
fedora 17 x86_64
Does Cobbler have a quick and easy way to not install the repos from
an installed distro? or am I looking at a kickstart snippet as my best
solution - thx
Hi Ed,
I am not real sure what you are asking, but if you mean "did I create my
own repos?", yes I did. No smarts involved at all on my part; some very
helpful person wrote this how to article on the Cobbler wiki:
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Manage%20Yum%20Repos
I followed that. I did learn the hard way that I need much more space
under / than a default install of CentOS 6.2 will give me. It allocates
50 Gb to the root partition ('/') and I ran out of that space before my
Fedora 17 x86_64 "Everything" repo could be built.
My own /etc/yum.repos.d directory has repo definitions for my repos plus
the normal Fedora 17 repos that are "out there". Based on what I have
seen when I do a "yum update", my repos are used first, and then the
Fedoraproject repos "out there". Since my repos have all the packages
and all the updates needed, I never actually pull from Fedoraproject's
mirrors as long as I am in my office. I have not yet taken the laptop
somewhere else in the world and then tried to do a 'yum update', but
since my repos are not public I am sure I would automatically update
from a Fedoraproject repo if I tried a 'yum update' at a Starbucks.
Oh, study the yum settings that are in /etc/cobbler/settings. I think
there is one that might be helpful to you -- but I'm no expert.
Bob
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