Glad to hear that I am not the only one having problems. BTW, someone else on this list recommended that I actually install the cobbler'd distribution on one of the target systems and then copy that in place of the read-only root installation presented by the Fedora instructions. That does seem like a good idea, but unfortunately, other priorities have prevented me from getting to try this yet. I never even got to the point where Puppet came in to the picture. Perhaps some of the problems that you encountered will get better after RHEL 5 update 2 is released. Warren Buck Huppmann wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:23:54PM -0500, Warren W. Thompson wrote: > >> Hi: >> >> I realize that I am on the bleeding edge in attempting to use >> this technology under RHEL 5; however, I would really like to >> see this work as I have more than a few systems to administer. >> >> What I have accomplished... > > i wish i'd read your post before reinventing some of those wheels > >> 4. And now, the show stopper... >> >> After Anaconda appears to make it most of the way through >> preparing the installation, I get a fatal crash involving an >> attempt to convert the downloaded size of of the package >> 'java-1.5.0-ibm-src.i386'. > > somehow i managed to evade this one. i got my packages from a cobbler > import of the RHEL 5.1 DVD ISO and used the FC6 kickstart config > (figuring that was closer to RHEL 5's vintage, but i was just guessing) > and anaconda sorta worked. (i mean, except for everything FUSE-related > not being found in the RHEL or stateless repositories. [i gather it's in > extras for FC 6.] if Fedora's using FUSE to handle some of the stateless > stuff, what's RHEL's stateless ``technology preview'' based on if RHEL > includes no FUSE?) > >> I would really like to see this technology work, and I have read in >> the RHEL 5.1 release notes that the RHEL is now ready for use with >> Stateless Linux. > > me, too > > so, my RHEL 5 diskless cobbler-ed system (where the distro or profile > or whatever was a straight copy of the fc6 analog) pypxeboot-s a > 2.6.18-53.el5xen kernel inside a paravirt, but a few things complain > about root being read-only, and puppet expires ingloriously (and i > couldn't login to the xvc0 console until updating inittab and, even > then, agetty or something isn't working right so i had to replace it > with sulogin [for now] just to get a shell). what's supposed to take > care of making sure puppet has some place to write? as far as i can > tell, there's nothing that refers to the /.snapshot mountpoint of my > CLIENTSTATE=mynfsserver:/export/private/myclient > > -- Warren W. Thompson the Hammers Company, Inc. wthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.hammers.com/ _______________________________________________ Stateless-list mailing list Stateless-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/stateless-list