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

[Dhawal Doshy]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> 
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>> 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.

Thanks Michael, that explains a lot more that what i could initially 
understand.. will let you know how it works out.

- dhawal