Kit Stube wrote:
Cobbler looks cool. Kinda like a front end for pxelinux and isc
dhcpd? The problem we have is we don't want to have to look up the
mac address for a host in order to configure it. Cobbler seems to
rely on that.
Nah, you don't :) At least not in newer versions ...
Starting with 0.6.x (0.6.1 is out today -- I recommend installing that),
you can name a system anything arbitrarily. If you know the MAC
address, it helps to use that so we can assign a specific kickstart --
you can also use the ip if you know that instead. Otherwise you can
pick a specific profile and just assign that to be the "default" for all
PXE booting systems. You can also use it to create a PXE menu, so you
can walk up to a machine while it's booting, type "menu", and pick what
you want.
Currently we have our dhcp server on an install network dump anyone
that netboots on that network to a default pxelinux menu. That
default menu allows a person to chose an os to install. Chosing one
kicks them into one of several different default kickstart files. If
I could get kickstart to ask for static network information like it
would if I was installing from CD, I would be done.
I should have read further before typing. Yeah, we can do that :)
The MAC address way of assigning the static info works really really
well though, if you can start doing it. I like kickstarts to be fully
interactive because I can start them and not have to baby-sit. Plus
mapping a system to a new profile is as easy as:
cobbler edit --name=<MAC> --profile=<newprofile>
--Michael
On 8/30/07, *Riggs, Ben* <rigg0022@xxxxxxx <mailto:rigg0022@xxxxxxx>>
wrote:
Check out http://cobbler.et.redhat.com It's made our life here
tons easier.
Ben
Kit Stube wrote:
> Is there an option that will allow me to automate everything in
> kickstart except just the network portion so that I can have the
same
> kickstart config for a bunch of clustered hosts but input the
network
> information myself?
>
> The reason I ask is because I would like to automate a lot of other
> stuff in %post or on first boot but need networking to be set up
> properly by the time that stuff runs or it will screw all of
that up.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Kit Stube
>
>
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