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Spike, Well said. I accomplish this in a similar way except I PXEboot to load the kernel and initrd, and then kickstart the OS installer in non-interactive install. I try to use a generic as possible KS files, and then once the install is accomplished the host shows up in Foreman and I select the most appropriate Puppet
host group #RHEL-6.6 Workstation PuppetClient LABEL RHEL-6.6 (64-bit) Workstation PuppetClient MENU PASSWD HASHEDPASSWD MENU PASSPROMPT Enter Password: MENU PASSWORDMARGIN 26 MENU PASSWORDROW 12 KERNEL rhel/x86_64/6/vmlinuz APPEND ks=http://URL/ks/rhel6-workstation-puppetclient.ks initrd=rhel/x86_64/6/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000 ksdevice=eth0 ip=dhcp Then in my KS file: url --url
http://URL/rhel/6/x86_64/6.6/os -Brandon From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Spike White Brandon, With Dell DRACs, you can "attach virtual media". I.e., either a CD image or a disk image. I'm guessing HP's remote access controller is similar. Using that, the original post (Frantisek) can do the CD-based install he wants. I.e., have the image on his local Windows or Linux desktop, attach that virtual media via DRAC. We customarily do that for 10 - 100 servers. I'm guessing a good engineer can image 5 servers per hour -- if the ks.cfg has all answers, so the install is non-interactive. There are some limitations. Because virtual media attachment is dog-slow. It's best to: 1. minimize the image size as much as possible. 2. have your desktop in a close network location to the servers you're imaging. For this second reason, we usually maintain "jump" servers in different geographic regions. For instance, when I'm imaging a server in Brazil, I'll remote (Windows) or XRDP (Linux) into a Brazil jump server, image from there. If by "large number of servers" is meant a few hundred or more, the original poster will either need PXE or a large array of heads-down engineers. Spike > From: "Ess, Brandon" <Brandon.Ess@xxxxxxx> > To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: > Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:01:15 +0000 > Subject: RE: RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP > Good luck. If you find a way to remotely provision a server without PXE (PXE requires DHCP) let us know. > > If they are Dell Servers there is IDRAC. While I’ve never used the Enterprise features, it does support bare-metal provisioning but if I remember correctly the provisioning service is just a rebranded Cobbler service….which requires DHCP. |
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