Appendix E. Importing Content ISOs into a Connected Satellite

Procedure

1. Log in to the Red Hat Customer Portal at https://access.redhat.com/.
2. In the upper left of the window, click Downloads and select Red Hat Satellite.
3. Click the Content ISOs tab. This page lists all the products that are available in your subscription.
4. Click the link for the product name, such as RHEL 8 (x86_64), to reveal links to download ISO images.
5. Download the ISO images.

6. On Satellite Server, create a directory to act as a temporary store for all of the required Satellite content ISO images. This example uses /tmp/isos/rhel8:

   # mkdir -p /tmp/isos/rhel8

7. On your workstation, copy the ISO files to Satellite Server:

   $ scp ~/Downloads/iso_file root@satellite.example.com:/tmp/isos/rhel8

8. On Satellite Server, create a directory to serve as a mount point for the ISOs:

   # mkdir /mnt/iso

9. Create a working directory to store ISO images:

   # mkdir /mnt/rhel8

10. Temporarily mount the first ISO image:

    # mount -o loop /tmp/isos/iso_file /mnt/iso

11. Recursively copy the contents of the first ISO to the working directory:

    # cp -ruv /mnt/iso/* /mnt/rhel8/

12. Unmount the ISO image:

    # umount /mnt/iso

13. Repeat the above step for each ISO until you have copied all the data from the Content ISO images into /mnt/rhel8.

14. If required, remove the empty directory used as the mount point:

    # rmdir /mnt/iso

15. If required, remove the temporary working directory and its contents to regain space:

    # rm -rf /tmp/isos/

16. Set the owner and the SELinux context for the directory and its contents to be the same as /var/lib/pulp:

    # chcon -R --reference /var/lib/pulp  /mnt/rhel8/
    # chown -R apache:apache /mnt/rhel8/

17. Create or edit the /etc/pulp/content/sources/conf.d/local.conf file. Append the following text into the file:

    [rhel-8-server]
    enabled: 1
    priority: 0
    expires: 3d
    name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    type: yum
    base_url: file:///mnt/rhel8/content/dist/rhel/server/8/x86_64/os/

    The base_url path might differ in your content ISO. The directory specified in base_url must contain the repodata directory, otherwise the synchronization fails. To synchronize multiple repositories, create a separate entry for each of them in the configuration file /etc/pulp/content/sources/conf.d/local.conf.

18. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Content > Red Hat Repositories and enable the following repositories:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS RPMs 8
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream RPMs 8
19. Under Content > Sync Status select the repositories to be synchronized and click Synchronize Now.