Re: Contents of ks.cfg gets overwritten

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cobbler system add --name=w3.fqdn.com --ksmeta="disks=sda,sdb nameserver=192.168.1.3 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.201"

man cobbler, and the wiki and doc webpages are great for this.

the variables usually correspond with keywords that anaconda considers valid within a kickstart file.

so, --hostname=some.host.com, not HOSTNAME

HTH,
Harry


Tom Brown wrote:



You'll probably want to put your kickstart file in /etc/cobbler

When you run cobbler sync, cobbler parses through your kickstart file and takes any templating you've added and transforms it for use by anaconda.

For example:
network --bootproto=static --ip=$ip_address --netmask=$netmask --gateway=$gatewa
y --nameserver=$nameserver --hostname=$hostname --device=eth0 --onboot=on

$ip_address, $netmask, etc. are all variables that cobbler will replace with actual values (that's I've provided when I did a "cobbler system add..."

Once cobbler has done this it takes the resulting kickstart file and drops it in the directories /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts or /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts_sys

This way if you change the template kickstart (e.g. /etc/cobbler/rhel-5-webservers.ks) to add something new then you can just run "cobbler sync".

If you had 5 systems setup to use a profile with that kickstart file all 5 would be updated automagically, instead of having to deal with each.


Can anyone help me with adding these variables to the system add command as

# cobbler system add --name=00:0C:29:71:D7:4D --profile=CentOS-4.5-i386 HOSTNAME=test IPADDR=192.168.10.23
this command doesn't take an option called 'HOSTNAME'

and this is the section from my kickstart.ks

network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --onboot=on --ip=$IPADDR --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.10.1 --nameserver 192.168.10.4 --hostname=$HOSTNAME

thanks for all the help so far
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