[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.
>

Can anyone help me with adding these variables to the system add command as

# cobbler system add --name=00:0C:29:71:D7:4D --profile=CentOS-4.5-i386 
HOSTNAME=test IPADDR=192.168.10.23
this command doesn't take an option called 'HOSTNAME'

and this is the section from my kickstart.ks

network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --onboot=on --ip=$IPADDR 
--netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.10.1 --nameserver 192.168.10.4 
--hostname=$HOSTNAME

thanks for all the help so far