[et-mgmt-tools] boot locally after install via cobbler

[Peter Wright]

Harry Hoffman wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I had this same problem... it should be said that with >= cobbler-0.5
> there is a option to edit the system:
> cobbler system add --name=string --profile=string [--mac=macaddress]
>        [--ip=ipaddress] [--hostname=hostname] [--kopts=string] [--ipad-
>        dress=string] [--ksmeta=string] [--netboot-enabled=Y/N
>
> The nice thing about cobbler via (git - yeah, it's a messed up name) is
> that a make in the d/l'd src directory will build you a rpm with proper
> version so that yum upgrades will overwrite it.
>
> It's a pretty trivial process, feel free to ask questions.
>

Awesome, thanks Harry - I'll start diving into this tomorrow then.  Just 
to make sure I understand clearly.  With the newer version I should be 
able to run something like this during %post:

cobbler system edit --name=$MAC --netboot-enabled=N

-pete

>
>
> > hi all,
> > i'm currently working on moving a cluster over from Xcat to cobbler.  so
> > far things have gone quite smoothly, i have imported several distros -
> > created my own distros and gotten my custom kickstart's working quite
> > easilly!
> >
> > my question is i have not figured out how one has an installation dial
> > back to the cobbler master node and tell it that it no longer needs to
> > to re-install itself.  with Xcat during the %post phase your node would
> > set it's status on the Xcat master node to boot locally after install -
> > is there something similar for cobbler?
> >
> > hopefully i'm missing something basic here, but have had no luck reading
> > through the man pages or mailing list archives.
> >
> > thanks!
> > -pete
> >
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> > Peter Wright
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> > Sony Pictures Imageworks
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