Cobbler Install on CentOS 6.2

Cobbler - not the kind you put peaches in, this is an automated install tool

Here's the quick and dirty to get it installed and the web interface working:

1. CentOS 6.2 install
• Basic Server install option
• as root, run "setenable 0" to turn selinux to permissive (without this, selinux caused me many headaches with the "cobbler check" command later)
• as root, run "vi /etc/selinux/config" and change the SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=permissive.  This keeps it in permissive mode over reboots.
• optional: set up a local user with wheel access, enable wheel sudo access, and set /etc/ssh/sshd_config with "PermitLocalRootLogin without-password"
2. add EPEL repo
1. point browser to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
2. right-click, copy link
3. on CentOS system (I connect through putty and change to root at this point), run
• rpm -ivh <SHIFT+INSERT> (last two keys will paste the link from step 2)
3. Install Cobbler
1. yum -y install cobbler cobbler-web koan policycoreutils-python
2. service cobblerd start
3. service httpd start
4. cobbler check
1. resolve all reported issues (I had about 10)
4. Configure Cobbler-Web
1. see cobbler-web wiki page, just remember to try http if https fails

I think you might be able to skip step 3.4 and do that after step 4 if you'd like to have the web gui, since it is available there, but I don't know if you can resolve all the issues from there.

Kudos to Mike DeHaan for a really helpful config checker; wish all software came with something like that.