Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 21:14 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > John wrote: > > Todays feedback for cobbler. On a fresh OS install all updates were done > > first. Don yum install cobbler from testing and I get a makefile > > problem. Here's the error... > > > > Transaction Check Error: > > file /usr

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-05-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
John wrote: Todays feedback for cobbler. On a fresh OS install all updates were done first. Don yum install cobbler from testing and I get a makefile problem. Here's the error... Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile from install of python-devel-2.4.3-19.el5 conflict

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-05-01 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:37 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > cobbler 0.8.x is now in the testing repos, pending feedback it will move > to the .centos.org repo's ( should not be more than a few weeks ) > > - KB Karan and Matt, Todays feedback for cobbler. On a fresh OS install all updates were do

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-05-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
Karanbir Singh wrote: John wrote: Matt has offered to help us setup and then maintain the cobbler packages ( along with the couple of deps that it needs ). So expect some action on that front in the next few days. It will need to still go via the whole testing -> stable route, but I will do my

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-21 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: >> Sure we can it is up to you if you want to put a link to it (you wrote >> it). When I get the my Cobbler situation sorted out i'll let you know. >> If I feel like I can do a good enough job of writing it (maybe with help >> and extra p

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-21 Thread John
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 17:11 -0400, Max Hetrick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John wrote: > > > I think the best solution for right now is to take off the CentOS 5. In > > the mean time I'll be testing Cobbler out from the Testing repo this > > week. Perhaps maybe a

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-21 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: > I think the best solution for right now is to take off the CentOS 5. In > the mean time I'll be testing Cobbler out from the Testing repo this > week. Perhaps maybe a section could be written on the Wiki for using > cobbler and you could

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-21 Thread John
> Let me know if you've been able to discover anything. I'm guessing this > is too much of a PITA to do on 5 until RHEL gets the tools corrected, > especially whenever you can easily get it working with 4.6 without much > effort. > > Regards, > Max Max, I think the best solution for right now is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
John wrote: Matt has offered to help us setup and then maintain the cobbler packages ( along with the couple of deps that it needs ). So expect some action on that front in the next few days. It will need to still go via the whole testing -> stable route, but I will do my best to push it along.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-18 Thread John
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 22:04 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > John wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 00:35 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> John wrote: > There will be no system-config-netboot in CentOS5. However, there were > plans to get cobbler into the centos-extras's repo so that people

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
John wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 00:35 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: John wrote: There will be no system-config-netboot in CentOS5. However, there were plans to get cobbler into the centos-extras's repo so that people can start using that instead. Karan, do you know of a date in question it ma

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-17 Thread John
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 00:35 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > John wrote: > >> There will be no system-config-netboot in CentOS5. However, there were > >> plans to get cobbler into the centos-extras's repo so that people can > >> start using that instead. > > > > Karan, do you know of a date in quest

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
John wrote: There will be no system-config-netboot in CentOS5. However, there were plans to get cobbler into the centos-extras's repo so that people can start using that instead. Karan, do you know of a date in question it may be in the extras-repo for centos 5 and > and please all the deps req

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-17 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:37 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > John wrote: > >> This is not compatable with CentOS 5... > >> # yum install system-config-netboot > >> # system-config-netboot > > > There will be no system-config-netboot in CentOS5. However, there were > plans to get cobbler into the cen

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
John wrote: >> This is not compatable with CentOS 5... >> # yum install system-config-netboot >> # system-config-netboot > There will be no system-config-netboot in CentOS5. However, there were plans to get cobbler into the centos-extras's repo so that people can start using that instead. Upstrea

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-17 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: >> Will. know something here in a few hours. If the Clients want boot then >> I will try the patches as I *have* to have this to work on v5. Only >> other option is Cobbler,which is prolly going to replace net-boot. It is >> source only. I

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-17 Thread John
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:25 -0400, Max Hetrick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Max Hetrick wrote: > > > I'll test it out and make the appropriate changes within the next few days. > > John, > > After getting things to work, I ran into a kernel panic problem when > t

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-16 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Hetrick wrote: > I'll test it out and make the appropriate changes within the next few days. John, After getting things to work, I ran into a kernel panic problem when trying to boot up. I found this link that tried to get things taken care of

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-16 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: >> This is not compatable with CentOS 5... >> # yum install system-config-netboot >> # system-config-netboot > >> Do you have a workaround for it. IE:Manually? system config netboot is not >> included in CentOS 5. There is a Bugzila repo

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-11 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: >> When I get around to Veryfing it working i'll post my findings to here >> in the docs list for you.It is your How To you can add the the >> appropiate notes on it [my opinion]. You can leave it, should work with >> 5 because you can ma

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-11 Thread John
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 20:44 -0400, Max Hetrick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John wrote: > > >> Do you have a workaround for it. IE:Manually? system config netboot is not > >> included in CentOS 5. There is a Bugzila report on > >> redhat that I was pointed to tha

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-11 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: >> Do you have a workaround for it. IE:Manually? system config netboot is not >> included in CentOS 5. There is a Bugzila report on >> redhat that I was pointed to that said it maybe released in another version >> of RHEL v5. I on the o

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-11 Thread John
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 19:28 -0400, Max Hetrick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > > Not really, go ahead (IMHO). > > > Done. Ignore that stupid question from the mail previously. I see it. This is not compatable with CentOS 5... # yum insta

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-11 Thread John
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 19:28 -0400, Max Hetrick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > > Not really, go ahead (IMHO). > > > Done. May I see it please. > > Regards, > Max > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) >

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-11 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Not really, go ahead (IMHO). Done. Regards, Max -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH//QbIXSX/6LmsXkRArdfAJ4/QcHtgBQGsI7p+llkWeEgiJObuwCdEJr7 txUv/3DkUhXr9wN6qlKr9kk= =9SDv -END PGP

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Max Hetrick wrote: > I wanted to ask before I created the main category "Diskless Clients" > under the How To page. Any objections to that there? Or suggest a better > title? Not really, go ahead (IMHO). Cheers, Ralph pgpTS9VjXWDv2.pgp Description: PGP signature ___