[et-mgmt-tools] Starting again with a new cobbler server

[Michael DeHaan]

drew einhorn wrote:
> I am building a new cobbler server, going back to the beginning
> and starting form scratch.
>
> The links from the "Source RPM Build Instructions for RHEL5"
> section of the download page are broken.
>   

So they are.   Thankfully these are in EPEL now so I can update the 
links/instructions.  Will do.

That's really all you have to do to install as well -- just configure 
your system to use EPEL as a yum repo
and "yum install cobbler".   There's not really a need to rebuild the 
source RPMs unless you are doing development on them.

>
> The the breed ooption is new, since the last time I was paying attention.
> How well does it work with a Ubuntu Gutsy or Hardy distro?
>   

Should do fine.   Basically all --breed=debian does is change the kernel 
arguments so that what you feed to --kickstart is actually treated as a 
preseed.   Ubuntu should work just the same.   I believe if you leave it 
unmodified (no --breed parameter) the kernel arguments /might/ work with 
Ubuntu's mutated version of kickstart also,  though you'll need to be 
careful about what goes in the template.  

> This go around I am going to try Xen based VMs.
> Need to read the documentation more carefully,
>
> So far I have not spotted the section that tells me how
> to setup the lvm storage for virt-file-size to allocate from.
>   

"man lvm" (specifically pvcreate, vgcreate, but not lvcreate), followed 
by "man koan" for --virt-path where you name the volume group to carve 
out storage from.

--Michael