[et-mgmt-tools] Contents of ks.cfg gets overwritten
 

Hi

Well i get further and then take 2 steps back and i am sure you are
getting tired of me but 1 more if i may


I put the contents of my ks.cfg in for example

/var/www/cobbler/kickstarts/CentOS-4.4-i386/ks.cfg

now i can add this profile and set a system against this and do a
cobbler sync and all seems fine.


When the build starts anaconda may bomb on something and then when i
check /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts/CentOS-4.4-i386/ks.cfg again the
changes i made have been removed and the changes lost.


Can anyone point me to docs that explain this behaviour please as i have
searched and cant see where to start.


thanks

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[et-mgmt-tools] Contents of ks.cfg gets overwritten
 

Hi Tom,

You'll probably want to put your kickstart file in /etc/cobbler

When you run cobbler sync, cobbler parses through your kickstart file
and takes any templating you've added and transforms it for use by anaconda.


For example:
network --bootproto=static --ip=$ip_address --netmask=$netmask
--gateway=$gatewa

y --nameserver=$nameserver --hostname=$hostname --device=eth0 --onboot=on

$ip_address, $netmask, etc. are all variables that cobbler will replace
with actual values (that's I've provided when I did a "cobbler system
add..."


Once cobbler has done this it takes the resulting kickstart file and
drops it in the directories /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts or
/var/www/cobbler/kickstarts_sys


This way if you change the template kickstart (e.g.
/etc/cobbler/rhel-5-webservers.ks) to add something new then you can
just run "cobbler sync".


If you had 5 systems setup to use a profile with that kickstart file all
5 would be updated automagically, instead of having to deal with each.


HTH,
Harry



Tom Brown wrote:

Hi

Well i get further and then take 2 steps back and i am sure you are
getting tired of me but 1 more if i may


I put the contents of my ks.cfg in for example

/var/www/cobbler/kickstarts/CentOS-4.4-i386/ks.cfg

now i can add this profile and set a system against this and do a
cobbler sync and all seems fine.


When the build starts anaconda may bomb on something and then when i
check /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts/CentOS-4.4-i386/ks.cfg again the
changes i made have been removed and the changes lost.


Can anyone point me to docs that explain this behaviour please as i have
searched and cant see where to start.


thanks

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[et-mgmt-tools] Contents of ks.cfg gets overwritten
 

You'll probably want to put your kickstart file in /etc/cobbler

When you run cobbler sync, cobbler parses through your kickstart file
and takes any templating you've added and transforms it for use by
anaconda.


For example:
network --bootproto=static --ip=$ip_address --netmask=$netmask
--gateway=$gatewa

y --nameserver=$nameserver --hostname=$hostname --device=eth0 --onboot=on

$ip_address, $netmask, etc. are all variables that cobbler will
replace with actual values (that's I've provided when I did a "cobbler
system add..."


Once cobbler has done this it takes the resulting kickstart file and
drops it in the directories /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts or
/var/www/cobbler/kickstarts_sys


This way if you change the template kickstart (e.g.
/etc/cobbler/rhel-5-webservers.ks) to add something new then you can
just run "cobbler sync".


If you had 5 systems setup to use a profile with that kickstart file
all 5 would be updated automagically, instead of having to deal with
each.




thanks Harry - that seems to be helping, at least things are not over
written now!!


Do you know if its possible to add a driver disk as in similar to doing
a text dd on the command line as i need to load some driver from a
floppy image.


thanks!

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[et-mgmt-tools] Contents of ks.cfg gets overwritten
 

You'll probably want to put your kickstart file in /etc/cobbler

When you run cobbler sync, cobbler parses through your kickstart file
and takes any templating you've added and transforms it for use by
anaconda.


For example:
network --bootproto=static --ip=$ip_address --netmask=$netmask
--gateway=$gatewa
y --nameserver=$nameserver --hostname=$hostname --device=eth0
--onboot=on


$ip_address, $netmask, etc. are all variables that cobbler will
replace with actual values (that's I've provided when I did a
"cobbler system add..."


Once cobbler has done this it takes the resulting kickstart file and
drops it in the directories /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts or
/var/www/cobbler/kickstarts_sys


This way if you change the template kickstart (e.g.
/etc/cobbler/rhel-5-webservers.ks) to add something new then you can
just run "cobbler sync".


If you had 5 systems setup to use a profile with that kickstart file
all 5 would be updated automagically, instead of having to deal with
each.




OK thanks all - i have FINALLY got a box installed using cobbler and
also rebuilt using koan - Now to fine tune things but so far its excellent.


I just wished i could now get the webgui running, i cant get in due to
an xmlrpc error but maybe i'll leave that for another day.


thanks

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