Michael DeHaan wrote:
Tom Brown wrote:
Ah, simple then.
It sounds like you've assigned your IP's and network info to system
objects, and are passing a /profile/ name to koan, perhaps?
This means that the profile object itself has no idea what those
variables should be.
Try passing in the system instead, or optionally use a DHCP
kickstart for profile based deployments. (Using Cheetah games, if
you like, you can detect that the ip isn't set and fall back to
DHCP... though
I'm not sure if you want that. I'm throwing it out there though).
to install a box i 'add a system' yes and this is given network
information and all works fine. On the reinstall using koan i pass
the -p <profilename> so that the box gets rebuilt to a different
profile, ie in my case different OS version. Is that what you suspect
i'm doing and is that 'wrong' ?
Yes, it's wrong because your kickstart is missing IP and MAC
information that is present when it's used on a per-system basis ...
if you look in /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts I suspect you'll see there
are still variables
in the kickstart files. If you compare that with the files in
/var/www/cobbler/kickstart_sys, you'll see that the variables that
correspond to the system object are filled in.
# koan --replace-self --system=name_goes_here
will make you use the system-specific kickstart, as opposed to the
profile specific-kickstart.
--Michael
This may be more useful ...
The following command syntax will autodetect the system based on the MAC
addresses it finds. (So you don't have to specify --system at all,
just leave off the profile).
# koan --server=bootserver.example.org --replace-self
Just run the corresponding cobbler command first to remap the system
entry to the appropriate profile, like so:
# cobbler system edit --name=name_goes_here
--profile=new_profile_name_goes_here
--Michael
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