[et-mgmt-tools] PXE boot menus & older versions of pxelinux/syslinux

[Michael DeHaan]

>
> Finally can anyone post some more examples of the ks templating??
>

I assume you've seen the very basic examples in /etc/cobbler, these are 
the default files that cobbler uses when one runs "cobbler import".   
The simplest thing there is how it fills in $tree to point to the 
location of your kickstart tree as accessible from cobbler over 
http://.   If you do a cobbler import (say, from an rsync mirror, or 
from a DVD as msquared has shown us how to do) and then run a "cobbler 
report", you'll see each profile uses a custom value for "tree", but in 
the kickstart, it's just shown as "$tree".

One thing that would be useful (I may have mentioned this before) is if 
one was provisioning a set of machines that were to use static IP's.... 
the profile would be common to all of them, but the different ip's would 
be added with --ksmeta="ip=192.168.1.50" for the various system 
entries.   This would allow their IP's to be set up appropriately in 
Anaconda.

It would also be possible for two profiles to share a common kickstart 
source file, and template that differently.

> cheers,
> - dhawal
>
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