[Spacewalk-list] possible to use spacewalk to kickstart RHEL distro?

[Colin Coe]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jason Welsh <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
>
> On 08/26/10 19:11, Colin Coe wrote:
>> Hi Jason
>>
>> Yes, this is possible and has been discussed on the list a few times.
>>
>> I generally base my Spacewalk RHEL channels on the RHN channels
> ok, thanks for the info.. ive got mine set up like that now ( i think),
> and when I try to do the kickstart from the spacewalk server, i still
> get this  error
>
> ERROR: reading package metadata: Cannot retrieve repository metadata
> (repomd.xml) for repository: anaconda-base-201003220802.x86_64.
> Please verify its path and try again.. Im sure my tree has the right
> info in it..
>
> [root at redhouse repodata]# pwd
> /var/distro-trees/RHEL-5.5-x86_64/Server/repodata
> [root at redhouse repodata]# ls
> comps-rhel5-server-core.xml  filelists.xml.gz  other.xml.gz
> primary.xml.gz  repomd.xml  TRANS.TBL
> [root at redhouse repodata]#
>
>
>
> ive googled this and I see this issue, but I dont see any good fitting
> answers.
>
> regards,
> Jason
>

Hi Jason

Have you populated the channels?  Have you created the distribution?
Have you created a Kickstart profile and an associated activationkey?

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