Re: RHEL4 Cobbler Setup

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Matt S Unix Administrator wrote:
>> How might one import RHEL 4 into cobbler from the installation media.
>> Such that the installation can be completed over the network. I've got a
>> functional cobbler install already with several distributions.
>>
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> All you have to do is copy over the files from each CD into a 
> directory somewhere on your cobbler server.  You'll want to preserve 
> the directory layout that was on the CD.  
> A good place to put this tree is 
> /var/lib/cobbler/localmirror/rhel4$type$arch, though if you don't want 
> to take up space in /var, you could just create a symlink to that 
> point and put the files somewhere else.   (Note:  If not running 
> Cobbler 0.3.6, this would require manually configuring Apache to 
> follow symlinks, 0.3.5 sets this up for you automatically).   The name 
> "localmirror" is special, if you name it something else, cobbler will 
> probably delete it for you, thinking it's content that shouldn't live 
> in /var/lib/cobbler.
>
> These files really don't have to be on the cobbler server, either.   
> In my setup, I just symlink a path to the kickstart trees that Red Hat 
> stores on NFS shares, i.e. /mnt/foo/something/RHEL4/AS/tree.    Samba 
> would technically work too if you are so inclined.
>