You mirror does not need to be on the Foreman instance, just somewhere on the provisioning network or nearby (routed).
You can try to configure 2nd interface via Anaconda options, this is possible. Note CentOS 6 and 7 PXELinux syntax differs a lot, take care and use documentation. Good luck! On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:49 AM, <rai...@ultra-secure.de> wrote: > Am 2017-12-18 10:21, schrieb Lukas Zapletal: >> >> Hello, >> >> you are doing it right. And yes, the general advice is to setup mirror >> (Katello/Pulp backend can help you with that a lot if you use RPMs and >> there's plugin for SUSE), or you can mirror manually. >> >> Now, Foreman is able to configure two or more ifaces, you pick one as >> primary which holds the default route, then you pick one as >> provisioning and that's the one you will be booting from (PXE/DHCP). >> >> Now, the problem is how installer behaves in this setup - this might >> be different for Red Hats, Debians and SUSE, I have experience with >> Red Hat and in that case the 1st (primary) interface is not used until >> you do firstboot, thus you need to route IP packets to your >> installation source or have mirror, because our PXELinux templates >> allows you to configure only one interface. But Anaconda supports >> more, you need to tune our templates and provide all interfaces via >> kernel command line. This will be similar in other OSes. >> >> If you test this setup, please file a patch to our community-templates >> so others can use it. But it's pretty non-standard setup, as I >> explained above. Your provisioning network should be capable of doing >> things from start to the finish. > > > > OK, I'll see what I can do. > > I use CentOS and I really wanted to avoid having to setup a local mirror for > it - my setup lives on my (somewhat nimble) local SSD... > > > > Thanks. > > > Rainer > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to foreman-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Later, Lukas @lzap Zapletal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foreman-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
