wow, I typed that way too quickly... if you use git to check out the latest version of cobbler you will get a option do disable netboot via a cmdline cobbler system edit --name=<mac addr> --netboot-enabled=N If you type make in the src directory it will build you a proper rpm with a revision higher then your current version of cobbler so that yum will *not* try to overwrite the currently installed version. > Hi Peter, > > I had this same problem... it should be said that with >= cobbler-0.5 > there is a option to edit the system: > cobbler system add --name=string --profile=string [--mac=macaddress] > [--ip=ipaddress] [--hostname=hostname] [--kopts=string] [--ipad- > dress=string] [--ksmeta=string] [--netboot-enabled=Y/N > > The nice thing about cobbler via (git - yeah, it's a messed up name) is > that a make in the d/l'd src directory will build you a rpm with proper > version so that yum upgrades will overwrite it. > > It's a pretty trivial process, feel free to ask questions. > > Cheers, > Harry > > >> hi all, >> i'm currently working on moving a cluster over from Xcat to cobbler. so >> far things have gone quite smoothly, i have imported several distros - >> created my own distros and gotten my custom kickstart's working quite >> easilly! >> >> my question is i have not figured out how one has an installation dial >> back to the cobbler master node and tell it that it no longer needs to >> to re-install itself. with Xcat during the %post phase your node would >> set it's status on the Xcat master node to boot locally after install - >> is there something similar for cobbler? >> >> hopefully i'm missing something basic here, but have had no luck reading >> through the man pages or mailing list archives. >> >> thanks! >> -pete >> >> -- >> Peter Wright >> Systems Administrator >> Sony Pictures Imageworks >> wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> www.imageworks.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> et-mgmt-tools mailing list >> et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools >> > > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools > _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
