Building a livecd by kickstarting off of a satellite server

Hi all,
I'm wondering if anyone here has ever used livecd-creator to build an iso, 
by pointing the .ks at a satellite server.

For what it's worth, I'm using livecd-tools-013-8.el5.1 from epel, on a 
recently updated 5.5 machine, to do the iso creation.

I've done nfs and http based kickstarts (non livecd-creator) in the past, 
I can do a local/file kickstart to create the livecd, but can't seem to 
work out how to get livecd-creator to do the http install from a channel 
on our satellite server.

I don't seem to have the google prowess to find out if anyone else has 
ever done this (or at left traces on line).

Thanks in advance for any help!

Paul Armor



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On 07/23/2010 02:28 PM, paul.armor(a)usbank.com wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  I'm wondering if anyone here has ever used livecd-creator to build an iso,
>  by pointing the .ks at a satellite server.
>
>  For what it's worth, I'm using livecd-tools-013-8.el5.1 from epel, on a
>  recently updated 5.5 machine, to do the iso creation.
>
>  I've done nfs and http based kickstarts (non livecd-creator) in the past,
>  I can do a local/file kickstart to create the livecd, but can't seem to
>  work out how to get livecd-creator to do the http install from a channel
>  on our satellite server.
>
>  I don't seem to have the google prowess to find out if anyone else has
>  ever done this (or at left traces on line).
>
>  Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>  Paul Armor
>
>
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It should run exactly the same since most kickstarts install from 
network based repos. Can you give us any error messages you're seeing? 
Or is it that your feeding livecd-creator a url for the kickstart?

Hi,
first, I apologize for the formatting of my emails/responses... I'm 
feeling crippled by lotus notes.

The tomcat that runs under the hood with satellite seems to do some crazy 
stuff w/ regards to the dynamically created .ks files it generates... I'm 
not sure how to translate something like the following in to something my 
.ks could use to build a livecd.  This is from a dynamically created "RH 
Satellite" ks:

install
text
url --url http://some.satellite-server.com/ty/WJow5BjE
<snip>
key $some-key
repo --name=my-satellite-channel 
--baseurl=http://some.satellite-server.com/ty/WJow5BjE  <-***

%packages --resolvedeps
@ Base

***this is added by me, because the livecd-creator script wants a repo to 
be defined, and I've tried twiddling the name and baseurl, to no avail. 
All combo's of channel names/urls seem to error in the same way.

And when I try to do this http kickstart, livecd-creator gets past the 
part where it lays down the filesystem, and errors with:

Error creating Live CD : Unable to download from repo : Cannot retrieve 
repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: my-satellite-channel. 
Please verify its path and try again
Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no attribute 
'sysconf'" in <bound method LiveCDYum.__del__ of 
<imgcreate.yuminst.LiveCDYum object at 0xa4075cc>> ignored

Unfortunately, I can't find the logs for what the tomcat install is 
doing/catching/erroring-on with the satellite server...

Paul Armor
Midrange Systems
US Bank



From:
Joey Boggs <jboggs(a)redhat.com&gt;
To:
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Cc:
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Date:
07/23/2010 01:37 PM
Subject:
Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Building a livecd by kickstarting off of a 
satellite server



On 07/23/2010 02:28 PM, paul.armor(a)usbank.com wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  I'm wondering if anyone here has ever used livecd-creator to build an  
iso,
>  by pointing the .ks at a satellite server.
>
>  For what it's worth, I'm using livecd-tools-013-8.el5.1 from epel, on a
>  recently updated 5.5 machine, to do the iso creation.
>
>  I've done nfs and http based kickstarts (non livecd-creator) in the  
past,
>  I can do a local/file kickstart to create the livecd, but can't
> seem to
>  work out how to get livecd-creator to do the http install from a channel
>  on our satellite server.
>
>  I don't seem to have the google prowess to find out if anyone else has
>  ever done this (or at left traces on line).
>
>  Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>  Paul Armor
>
>
>
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It should run exactly the same since most kickstarts install from 
network based repos. Can you give us any error messages you're seeing? 
Or is it that your feeding livecd-creator a url for the kickstart?




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[Alan Pevec]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:04 PM,  <paul.armor(a)usbank.com&gt; wrote:
>  .ks could use to build a livecd.  This is from a dynamically created
> "RH
>  Satellite" ks:
>
>  install
>  text
>  url --url http://some.satellite-server.com/ty/WJow5BjE
>  <snip>
>  key $some-key
>  repo --name=my-satellite-channel
>  --baseurl=http://some.satellite-server.com/ty/WJow5BjE  <-*** 
url directive specifies installation tree and livecd-tools doesn't handle that.
You need to specify subfolder with yum repository in repo directives instead.
Check packagedir value in
http://some.satellite-server.com/ty/WJow5BjE/.treeinfo which subfolder
you have, can be Client or Server.
For RHEL5 Server tree repo is
http://some.satellite-server.com/ty/WJow5BjE/Server

BTW. that must be older Satellite version, in 5.3 cobbler is
integrated and repo URLs are normal, see example in docs
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.3.0/Deployme...

Alan