[et-mgmt-tools] Summary of things new in Cobbler 0.9/1.0

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Thu May 8 15:57:01 UTC 2008


Al Tobey wrote:
> That's too bad ... I was looking forward to not having to maintain a
> local version of koan any more.   I'm not sure if it worked on EL4
> since I mainly use koan -A for VM installs which run EL5 on dom0.
>   

Yep... I'm willing to have it back, it was just doing some math that I 
didn't have time to figure out and test.
Basically the code in question returned different values for 2.3 and 2.5.

> My only request at this point is that either --ip, --netmask, and
> --gateway get added for setting network configuration on the kernel
> command line, or better yet a more generic option gets added,
> something like --cmdline "ip=x.x.x.x netmask=x.x.x.x gateway=x.x.x.x".
>   

I like this.   For consistancy, maybe --kopts to match cobbler.    As 
there have been other requests for more
cobbler overrides in koan, that can fit into that idea.   Will add.




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