Photon RPM OSTree: 7 Installing a host against a custom server repository

Installing a Photon RPM-OSTree host that will pull from a server repository of your choice is very similar to the way we installed the host against the default server repo in Chapter 2: Installing a Photon RPM-OSTree host against default server repository.
We will follow the same steps, we will still select "Photon OSTree Host", and after assigning a host name like photon-host and a root password, this time we will click on "Custom RPM-OSTree Server".

An additional screen will ask the URL of server repo - enter the IP address of the server installed in the previous step.
You will then be asked to enter a Refspec. Leave the default 'photon/1.0/x86_64/minimal' value, unless you've created a new branch at the server (we will see later in the course how to do that).

Once this is done and the installation finished, reboot and you are ready to use it. You may verify - just like in Chapter 3.1 - that you can get an rpm-ostree status. The value for the CommitID should be identical to the host that installed from default repo in Chapter 2, if the server in Chapter 6 has been installed fresh, from the same ISO.

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