Kit
On 8/30/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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=""
--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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