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

[Tom Brown]

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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.
>>

OK thanks all - i have FINALLY got a box installed using cobbler and 
also rebuilt using koan - Now to fine tune things but so far its excellent.

I just wished i could now get the webgui running, i cant get in due to 
an xmlrpc error but maybe i'll leave that for another day.

thanks