[Spacewalk-list] Building kickstart distributions

[Jonathan Hoser]

  Hi all,

one issue solved, next problem rises its head:

I cannot create kickstart distributions.

What do I do?
At the webinterface: Systems->Kickstart->Distributions->create new 
distribution

Previously I have copied the entire install DVDs of CentOS 5.5 x86_64 
and Fedora13 x86_64 to a local directory called
/var/satellite/jh/
     ..../centos5.5-x86_64-iso
and
     ..../fedora13-x86_64-iso

In the webinterface (https://server/rhn/kickstart/TreeCreate.do) I enter
Distribution Label: test1234
Tree Path: /var/satellite/jh/centos5.5-x86_64-iso
Base Channel: CentOS-5.5 x86_64
[created a base-channel synced to http://centos.bio.lmu.de/5.5/os/x86_64/ ]
Installer Generation: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Kernel Options: [empty]
Post Kernel Options: [empty]

A click on 'Create Kickstart Distribution' gets me a red warning label 
located on the page reading:
"The kernel could not be found at the specified location: 
/var/satellite/jh/centos5.5-x86_64-iso/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz"

However, the file exists
[jonathan.hoser at host ~]$ ls -alZ 
/var/satellite/jh/centos5.5-x86_64-iso/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
-rwxrwxrwx. tomcat root system_u:object_r:iso9660_t:s0   
/var/satellite/jh/centos5.5-x86_64-iso/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz

Renaming the vmlinuz file, doesn't change the error message,
renaming the initrd.img file, does:
"The initrd could not be found at the specified location: 
/var/satellite/jh/centos5.5-x86_64-iso/images/pxeboot/initrd.img"

The contents of my pxeboot-directory are:
[jonathan.hoser at host pxeboot]$ ls -alZ
drwxrwxrwx. tomcat root system_u:object_r:iso9660_t:s0   .
drwxrwxrwx. tomcat root system_u:object_r:iso9660_t:s0   ..
-rwxrwxrwx. tomcat root system_u:object_r:iso9660_t:s0   initrd.img
-rwxrwxrwx. tomcat root system_u:object_r:iso9660_t:s0   README
-rwxrwxrwx. tomcat root system_u:object_r:iso9660_t:s0   TRANS.TBL
-rwxrwxrwx. tomcat root system_u:object_r:iso9660_t:s0   vmlinuz

with 777-rights only to make sure, I'm not missing anything again.
So: Why does initrd.img register as ok, while vmlinuz doesn't?

And where would I need to place a modified 
com.redhat.rhn.domain.kickstart.KickstartableTree class, to test for 
some scenarios I have in mind?
The instructions/scripts with ant install-dev don't work, there's so 
much stuff missing that the httpd-service won't come up.

Best
-Jonathan