[et-mgmt-tools] koan patch: reinstall from kickstart file without a cobbler server

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 20:47:35 UTC 2008


Gavin Romig-Koch wrote:
> koan patch: reinstall from kickstart file without a cobbler server
>
> This is my first crack at a koan patch to do this, please review it 
> and consider it for inclusion in koan, I'm happy to make whatever 
> changes are needed, and fix whatever mistakes I've made.
>
> This patch alters koan to allow it reinstall a machine from a 
> kickstart file, without the need for a cobbler server.  It's a rather 
> large patch given what it does.  Most of the changes are updating koan 
> not to assume that it is connected to a cobbler server.
>
> If you specify the --kickstart=URL option instead of a --server 
> option, it will load the kickstart file from the given URL.  From the 
> kickstart file it determines the URL of the install tree, and gets the 
> install kernel and initrd from within the install tree.

Great, I'll test this out...

Possibly to reduce confusion, I might rename this to "--no-cobbler=" or 
equivalent.   


--Michael

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