Here's the steps I took to reinstall the serverbeach servers:
0. make sure the hosts ip is allowed to access the repos on infrastructure. and make sure puppet allows the host to connect to its fileserver - in the fileserver.conf file in cvs
1. login to existing system as root 2. run: urlgrabber \ http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/rhel/RHEL5-x86_64/images/pxeboot/vml... \ /boot/vmlinuz-install
urlgrabber \ http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/rhel/RHEL5-x86_64/images/pxeboot/ini... \ /boot/initrd-install.img
3. run this command +/- ip address changes and path changes for the kickstart config
grubby --add-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-install \ --args="ks=http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/hidden/sb1.ks lang= \ devfs=nomount ksdevice=link selinux=0 ip=64.34.163.94 \ gateway=64.34.163.65 netmask=255.255.255.192 \ dns=64.34.160.92,64.34.160.76" --title="install el5" \ --initrd=/boot/initrd-install.img
4. run 'grub' and type: savedefault --default=0 --once quit
5. reboot the system. Watch it via ping, when it starts pinging again after the install run:
vncview hostip:1
type in the vnc password - in this case 'vncinstall'
That's it.
-sv
seth vidal said the following on 11/19/2007 07:18 PM Pacific Time:
Here's the steps I took to reinstall the serverbeach servers:
Thanks for posting stuff like this! I've been trying to do a setup like this on my home testing network for a while, but kept running into problems.
I really appreciate how the Infrastructure team publishes things like this on a regular basis!
John
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:07 -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
seth vidal said the following on 11/19/2007 07:18 PM Pacific Time:
Here's the steps I took to reinstall the serverbeach servers:
Thanks for posting stuff like this! I've been trying to do a setup like this on my home testing network for a while, but kept running into problems.
I really appreciate how the Infrastructure team publishes things like this on a regular basis!
vnc kickstarts are nice b/c if you want to do any step manually it lets you have that option and you get the extra power of the graphical installer vs the somewhat hurky text-mode installer.
I just wish there was a way via vnc to see all of the vts during the install.
-sv
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:22:26 -0500 seth vidal skvidal@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I just wish there was a way via vnc to see all of the vts during the install.
There is if you're doing a virt install and exporting the guest via vnc, but not if you're just doing anaconda via vnc.
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 12:34 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:22:26 -0500 seth vidal skvidal@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I just wish there was a way via vnc to see all of the vts during the install.
There is if you're doing a virt install and exporting the guest via vnc, but not if you're just doing anaconda via vnc.
right - for bare metal, not virt.
-sv
On Nov 19, 2007 7:18 PM, seth vidal skvidal@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Here's the steps I took to reinstall the serverbeach servers:
- make sure the hosts ip is allowed to access the repos on
infrastructure. and make sure puppet allows the host to connect to its fileserver - in the fileserver.conf file in cvs
- login to existing system as root
- run:
urlgrabber \ http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/rhel/RHEL5-x86_64/images/pxeboot/vml... \ /boot/vmlinuz-install
I don't follow this list closely, but are we now using RHEL for Fedora infrastructure? Weren't we using Fedora to run the Fedora infrastructure (for obvious reasons)? Why the change?
-Chris
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 12:12 -0800, Chris Weyl wrote:
On Nov 19, 2007 7:18 PM, seth vidal skvidal@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Here's the steps I took to reinstall the serverbeach servers:
- make sure the hosts ip is allowed to access the repos on
infrastructure. and make sure puppet allows the host to connect to its fileserver - in the fileserver.conf file in cvs
- login to existing system as root
- run:
urlgrabber \ http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/rhel/RHEL5-x86_64/images/pxeboot/vml... \ /boot/vmlinuz-install
I don't follow this list closely, but are we now using RHEL for Fedora infrastructure? Weren't we using Fedora to run the Fedora infrastructure (for obvious reasons)? Why the change?
we've been using a mix based on the service and service-life-time.
-sv
Chris Weyl wrote:
I don't follow this list closely, but are we now using RHEL for Fedora infrastructure? Weren't we using Fedora to run the Fedora infrastructure (for obvious reasons)? Why the change?
We've used a mixture of RHEL and Fedora for as long as I can remember. In general RHEL fits our needs better because it gives us a longer period before it goes EOL which means we don't have to reinstal the servers once a year. When we have a need for a feature that isn't present in RHEL we use Fedora for the service, usually with the idea that we'll migrate the service to RHEL when RHEL rebases to a sufficiently current Fedora.
-Toshio
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