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6.2.2. Preparing for Import from Local Media
To perform the RHN Satellite Server import, the following prerequisites must be met:
•
The RHN Satellite Server installation must have been performed successfully.
•
The Red Hat Network Channel Content ISOs or
RHN Satellite Exporter
data must be
available, or the Satellite must have access to the Internet and the RHN website.
Although it is possible to conduct the import directly from the RHN website, this should
be done only if Channel Content ISOs are not available. It takes a long time to populate a
channel from scratch over the Internet. For this reason, Red Hat urges you to use ISOs, if
they are available, for initial import.
6.2.2.1. Preparing Channel Content ISOs
Channel Content ISOs are special collections that contain both packages and XML dumps
of metadata. The ISO images can be downloaded from the RHN website on a machine con-
nected to the Internet and then transferred to the Satellite. After logging in, click
Channels
in the top navigation bar and then the name of the channel for your version of RHN Satel-
lite Server. Click the
Downloads
tab and use the instructions on the page to obtain the
Channel Content ISOs, available by version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If the desired
Channel Content ISOs do not appear, ensure your RHN Entitlement Certificate has been
uploaded to RHN and correctly identifies the target channels.
Channel Content ISOs are mounted and then copied to a temporary repository directory.
Before mounting the ISOs, ensure the temporary repository has enough disk space to copy
all the contents into a single directory. For a single channel, the approximate required space
is 3 GB. The process to copy Channel Content ISOs is to mount each one, copy its contents
to the temporary repository, and then unmount the ISO. Each channel consists of several
ISOs. Once finished, the administrator should delete the temporary directory and all of its
contents. Follow these steps:
1. Log into the machine as root.
2. Insert the first Channel Content ISO that has been burned to disc.
3. Create a directory in
/mnt/
to store the file(s) with the command:
mkdir /mnt/import/
4. Mount the ISO file from within the directory containing it using the command:
mount
iso_filename
/mnt/import -o loop
5. Create a target directory for the files, such as:
mkdir /var/rhn-sat-import/
6. This sample command assumes the administrator wants to copy the contents of the
ISO (mounted in
/mnt/import/
) into
/var/rhn-sat-import/
:
cp -ruv /mnt/import/* /var/rhn-sat-import/
Summary of Contents for NETWORK SATELLITE SERVER 4.1.0
Page 1: ...RHN Satellite Server 4 1 0 Installation Guide...
Page 12: ...8 Chapter 1 Introduction...
Page 20: ...16 Chapter 2 Requirements...
Page 24: ...20 Chapter 3 Example Topologies Figure 3 3 Satellite Proxy Vertically Tiered Topology...
Page 38: ...34 Chapter 4 Installation...
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