[Spacewalk-list] Creating a RHEL 6 kickstart channel

[Matthew Ceroni]

Yes, I followed this. I am not even getting to the registration part yet.
When the anaconda installer starts up it complains prior to even installing
the operating system. The two errors are what I outlined below. Missing
repomd.xml and then after that the unable to read group information.


On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Jonathan DeHaan <jdehaan at nexstar.tv> wrote:

> **
> If you want to kickstart from Spacewalk, I highly recommend reading through
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToKickstartCobbler. The
> examples are from Fedora 9, so it requires a little adaptation, but not
> much. I'm afraid it's a bit more complicated than just creating a channel
> and saying Go! :-)
>
> I haven't tried kickstarting RedHat directly. Recent Fedora requires a
> little trial and error to see what packages you have to add to the kickstart
> to get it to register, but those packages may be included in RedHat by
> default.
>
> On 06/24/2011 05:30 PM, Matthew Ceroni wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
>  Is it possible, with the RedHat 6 installation media, to create a channel
> within Spacewalk that you can use to kickstart a RH6 system?
>
>  What I have tried is to create the channel and then do a RHNpush of all
> the RPM from that CD. However when I tried to kickstart using that channel,
> anaconda complained that it couldn't find the repond.xml. After ignoring
> that it then complained about "Unable to read group info from the
> repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree".
> This issue I couldn't ignore.
>
>  I figured the rhnpush method wasn't valid so decided to try and use
> spacewalk-repo-sync. Again, mounted up the installation media and tried
>
>    spacewalk-repo-sync --channel rhel-server-6-x86_64 --url=
> file://mnt/cdrom/Server
>
>  But that again complained that it couldn't find the repond.xml.
>
>  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>  Thanks
>
>
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