[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler, findks.cgi, registration, and so forth

[Michael DeHaan]

Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote:
> 	Hi
> 	This auto-registration feature seems not to work if using koan to
> replace a machine, as it relies on MAC and:
>   

Correct, it pre-downloads the kickstart.   This was why I mentioned 
possibly having an option not to embed the kickstart
earlier, though /that/ wouldn't work if you rely on koan embedding the 
kickstart for DHCP reasons.

> 	koan -r downloads the file using wget to store it, so no mac info
> sent, machine would be correctly deployed, but no ks request will be made
> by anaconda, so no autoregistration.
>
> 	wget in kickstart profile, also, doesn't send mac, so this will
> not register the machine.
>   
Indeed.  It needs to make that request on the kernel options line so 
Anaconda adds that info.
As I mentioned earlier today, this is all in progress, stay tuned and 
check back around Wednesday :)