[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart w/o internet access

[Justin Sherrill]

  On 9/28/10 12:25 PM, Sascha Bendix wrote:
> Hi,
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> in my current setup the clients doesn't have access to the internet. They are supposed to get all the stuff they need from the spacewalk (version 1.1) server.
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> There is only one little problem with this: During the kickstart process the update of package lists seems to be triggered by rhnreg_ks and rhn_check during the first %post section which is titled "cobbler snippet". At this point they always wait for the timeout which takes 4 time longer than the rest of the installation does.
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> I couldn't find out where this "cobbler snippet" is located in the filesystem (it's not in /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/snippets). Can anybody give me some hint ?
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> I disable the repositories later in some other %post script. As an alternative to change the snippet, is there a way to do the registration in some later %post section?
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> Or does anybody has another idea how to deal with this issue?
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> Regards,
>
> Sascha Bendix

Hey Sascha,

It should either be in /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/snippets/ or  
/var/lib/cobbler/snippets/

-Justin

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