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

[Tom Brown]

> cobbler system add --name=w3.fqdn.com --ksmeta="disks=sda,sdb 
> nameserver=192.168.1.3 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.201"
>
> man cobbler, and the wiki and doc webpages are great for this.
>
> the variables usually correspond with keywords that anaconda considers 
> valid within a kickstart file.
>
> so, --hostname=some.host.com, not HOSTNAME
>
>

well the following is accepted by cobbler

# cobbler system add --profile=CentOS-4.5-i386 --name=test  
--ip=192.168.10.23 --mac=00:0C:29:71:D7:4D --hostname=test

but when the system boots it sits waiting for me to add IP information 
but the netmask and gateway are filled - it is getting them from the .ks

# cat /etc/cobbler/kickstart_CentOS-4.5-i386.ks | grep network
# Use network installation
network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --onboot=on --netmask 
255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.10.1 --nameserver 192.168.10.4

can you please advise me on what my template file should look like?

I have looked here

https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating

but i cant seem to figure it out

thanks