As long as we don't have to enter a mac address it sounds good to me. The problem with mac addresses is that our servers boot so fast it's hard to catch the config menu as it flies by. We're normally looking at them through an ASM or IpKVM of some type which just makes it harder..... Our build process is already obnoxious enough already. I'll look into that further after I get this first batch of servers delivered to the poor folks who are waiting on me right now. :-( Thanks. Kit <div>On 8/30/07, Michael DeHaan <<a href="mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com">mdehaan@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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* <<a href="mailto:rigg0022@umn.edu">rigg0022@umn.edu</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rigg0022@umn.edu">rigg0022@umn.edu</a>>> > wrote: > > Check out <a href="http://cobbler.et.redhat.com">http://cobbler.et.redhat.com</a> 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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a>> > > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com"> Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a>> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list </a> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com"> Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> </blockquote></div>