Am 04.02.2008 um 22:00 schrieb Michael DeHaan:
Rainer Duffner wrote:
Am 04.02.2008 um 21:27 schrieb JimmyT _:
I told you what we changed .... a new box, with a fresh download,
and
a vanilla install.
Based on your reposnse, it's clear the perception is that "it's us".
Fair enough. We'll stick to supported products.
Do physical installs work?
It works here, basically out-of-the-box.
Sometimes, though, the RPC-XML interface can get "cobbled" and
I've got to restart httpd+cobblerd.
Haven't figured out why, though.
Development cobbler from git (0.7.X, 0.8 candidate) has some
logging updates that also include much better remote exception
handling, so stay tuned for that, I suspect that should go away. I
haven't seen any issues with cobblerd from the development build
which I've been running in a /long/ time. I do recall some issues
with cobblerd in previous releases.
It's not very often.
Maybe also was only in the vmware-image I tested this all with...
I really wish I had something like cobbler for my FreeBSD-
installations.
I'm not sure I've mentioned that to you yet or not (I know I have
some other folks) --
Cobbler already has support in there to do SuSE/Debian type
installs (they take an answer file, even if it's not technically a
kickstart). If there's an easy enough way to adapt
the code (mainly action_sync.py and item_distro.py) to grok the BSD
differences, I'd be willing to take incorporate it. Honestly I'm
not all that familiar with what it takes to
network install BSDs -- patches definitely welcome though.
The problem is, that FreeBSD doesn't use pxelinux to boot - it has
its own PXE-bootloader.
Then, the equivalent of the ks.cfg file goes into the compressed
msfroot filesystem image, which would be a major pain to adapt.
It also likes to work via FTP only (all the example scripts have NFS
commented out and setup FTP instead - as if everybody had tried and
then settled for the obvious.
I must look at that at some point - there's a howto about converting
a FreeBSD-ISO for PXE-booting with pxelinux here: http://
phaq.phunsites.net/?s=pxe
There's a lot I don't like about Linux - but RHELs kickstart +
cobbler works _very_ well.
And I really get better "support" from Michael et.al. via IRC/ML
than I get from other, wanna-be vendors via a paid contract.
Glad to hear that. Thanks!
Credit where credit is due ;-)
cheers,
Rainer
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Rainer Duffner
CISSP, LPI, MCSE
rainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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