Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread isdtor
> Also, in case you're ever interested, I've written a script that > generates suitable IPv4-based filenames for pre-default usage: > >https://github.com/heinlein/pxehex gethostip ... I simply rebuilt the relevant C5 rpms for C6, system-config-netboot and system-config-netboot-cmd, IIRC.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread Pete Biggs
> > > .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8025B > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8025 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A802 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A80 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg/C0A8 > > > .../pxelinux.cfg

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 04/11/2017 01:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Pete Biggs wrote: We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. What's happening is that it tries in this order .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread m . roth
Pete Biggs wrote: > >>We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild >> machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. >> What's happening is that it tries in this order >> .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d >> .../pxelinux

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread Pete Biggs
>We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild > machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. > What's happening is that it tries in this order > .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d > .../pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Hi, folks, We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. What's happening is that it tries in this order .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab8

[CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2017-04-11 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks, We've been using pxeboot to pull up a menu, to build or rebuild machines for years. We have this new server, and it fails. Times out. What's happening is that it tries in this order .../pxelinux.cfg/b8945908-d6a6-41a9-611d-74a6ab80b83d .../pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot: solved

2011-07-12 Thread m . roth
Problem solved. Turns out that the repo that we had did not have comps.xml, and createrepo wasn't run. Works now. Thanks for the suggestions, though, folks. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Ok, now you have me confused: should there not be such image files? Look at the file names, it should be intuitive. As per the docs, if they exist, updates.img will apply updates:) etc... http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?p=305 Looks like it's been removed from the 6x docs, but I haven't the time to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-12 Thread m . roth
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>Should I assume that these .iso's are unreliable, and d/l >>newer ones? > > No, normal behavior. Ok, now you have me confused: should there not be such image files? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://l

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Should I assume that these .iso's are unreliable, and d/l >newer ones? No, normal behavior. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-12 Thread m . roth
Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Are you using a local repository? Perhaps the source from which you >> downloaded/rsynced it was in an unstable state. > > Yep. My manager d/l it; I found after I posted that he hadn't done a > makerepo. Did that, no joy. Then the other admin here tells me I needed to >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread m . roth
Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart >> file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable >> to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with >> the generation o

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart > file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable > to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with > the generation of your install tree." > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread Phil Gardner
FWIW, I have this problem with 5.6. Are you installing from a local repo? If you are, try rsyncing the repo again. See if it changes the repodata files at all. I have yet to find why my repodata files are changing for the main repo (I didn't build our original repo servers, there are a bunch of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread Scot P. Floess
Not sure this is related... I just Cobbler-ified and Puppet-ized for CentOS 6... One thing I had in Cobbler was that I pointed to addons - which doesn't look like it exists in 6. I looked in 5.6 and noted nothing there...so I dropped addons as a repo in 6. All my VMs are installing correctl

[CentOS] CentOS 6 and pxeboot

2011-07-11 Thread m . roth
Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree." A quick google gives me the first hit from a year ago, bug