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

[Harry Hoffman]

Hi Peter,

No, I don't think that'll work... but if you wrote a quick cgi to accept
the args of mac addr and netboot then you could exec the cobbler
command...

something like

%post

wget http://cobbler/cgi-bin/done_install?mac=00:11:22:33:44:55&netboot=n

You'd of course want to do the normal sanitization of user data.

I've got a script that I could modify to do this, let me know if you
need/want it.

Cheers,
Harry


> 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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