[Thincrust-devel] Kickstart woes

[Bryan Kearney]

Ahh.. you need a repo for RHEL as well. Do you have access to the 
install media or RHN?

-- bk


Dwain Sims wrote:
> OK -making progress but still lost I think.....
> 
> This is my http://localhost/lknfs contents
> 
> Index of /lknfs
> [ICO]	Name	Last modified	Size	Description
> [DIR]	Parent Directory	 	-
> [ ]	jre-1_5_0_07-linux-i586.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:49 	16M
> [ ]	pdksh-5.2.14-30.3.i386.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:47 	187K
> [DIR]	repodata/	12-Jun-2008 09:58 	-
> [ ]	steeleye-lk-6.2.2-1.i386.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:24 	1.4M
> [ ]	steeleye-lkDR-6.2.1-3.noarch.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 442K
> [ ]	steeleye-lkGUI-6.2.2-1.i386.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:24 	1.1M
> [ ]	steeleye-lkHLP-6.2.2-1.noarch.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 1.7M
> [ ]	steeleye-lkIP-6.2.2-1.noarch.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 66K
> [ ]	steeleye-lkLIC-6.2.1-3.i386.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:50 	270K
> [ ]	steeleye-lkMAN-6.2.2-1.noarch.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 60K
> [ ]	steeleye-lkNFS-5.1.1-1.noarch.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 49K
> [ ]	steeleye-lkRAW-6.2.2-1.noarch.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:24
> 25K
> [ ]	steeleye-lkRHAS-6.2.1-3.noarch.rpm	12-Jun-2008 09:48
> 17K
> Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora) Server at fayette Port 80
> 
> 
> And here is what I put in the kickstart
> 
> #
> # Include the repositories
> #
> #%include repo-rhel5.ks
> 
> repo --name=lknfs --baseurl=http://localhost/lknfs
> 
> #
> # Add all the packages after the base packages
> #
> %packages --excludedocs --nobase
> 
> 
> #
> # Packages to Add
> #
> bash
> kernel
> grub
> e2fsprogs
> passwd
> policycoreutils
> chkconfig
> rootfiles
> yum
> vim-minimal
> acpid
> dhclient
> openssh-clients
> openssh-server
> 
> pdksh
> steeleye-lkRHAS
> jre
> steeleye-lkLIC
> steeleye-lk
> steeleye-lkGUI
> steeleye-lkHLP
> steeleye-lkIP
> steeleye-lkMAN
> steeleye-lkRAW
> steeleye-lkNFS
> steeleye-lkDR
> 
> 
> Running kickstart still claims it cannot find the packages ("The package
> does not exist").  Do I need to be more explicit on the names (full path
> names perhaps?)
> 
> Dwain
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thincrust-devel-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:thincrust-devel-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Kearney
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:41 AM
> To: Thincrust tooling devel list
> Subject: Re: [Thincrust-devel] Kickstart woes
> 
> See below
> 
> Dwain Sims wrote:
>> I have created a yum repository for our software and I have it
> available 
>> from http.  Createrepo seemed to do the right thing.   So in my 
>> kickstart I have
>>
>>  
>>
>> repo --name=lknfs --baseurl=http://localhost/lknfs
> 
> Assuming that you see this addres, and there is a repodata directory in 
> there you are good.
> 
>> My main question is how do I tell kickstart to install all of the RPMs
> 
>> in this repository?
> 
> In the %packages section you need to list the packages you would like to
> 
> install. Kickstrt (via yum) will pull in the rest. You could create a 
> group for yum to use, but that explicit list will be easier.
> 
>> Since our application is many RPMs, is  ThinCrust going to work OK
> with 
>> us?    I guess I am concerned that our install is too complicated for 
>> this to work right.
> 
> Should be no issue.
> 
> -- bk
> 
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