[et-mgmt-tools] Contents of ks.cfg gets overwritten

Tom Brown tom at ng23.net
Thu Nov 22 17:47:23 UTC 2007


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> You'll probably want to put your kickstart file in /etc/cobbler
>
> When you run cobbler sync, cobbler parses through your kickstart file 
> and takes any templating you've added and transforms it for use by 
> anaconda.
>
> For example:
> network --bootproto=static --ip=$ip_address --netmask=$netmask 
> --gateway=$gatewa
> y --nameserver=$nameserver --hostname=$hostname --device=eth0 --onboot=on
>
> $ip_address, $netmask, etc. are all variables that cobbler will 
> replace with actual values (that's I've provided when I did a "cobbler 
> system add..."
>
> Once cobbler has done this it takes the resulting kickstart file and 
> drops it in the directories /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts or 
> /var/www/cobbler/kickstarts_sys
>
> This way if you change the template kickstart (e.g. 
> /etc/cobbler/rhel-5-webservers.ks) to add something new then you can 
> just run "cobbler sync".
>
> If you had 5 systems setup to use a profile with that kickstart file 
> all 5 would be updated automagically, instead of having to deal with 
> each.
>

thanks Harry - that seems to be helping, at least things are not over 
written now!!

Do you know if its possible to add a driver disk as in similar to doing 
a text dd on the command line as i need to load some driver from a 
floppy image.

thanks!




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