static network configuration ask

[Michael DeHaan]

Kit Stube wrote:
> As long as we don't have to enter a mac address it sounds good to 
> me.   The problem with mac addresses is that our servers boot so fast 
> it's hard to catch the config menu as it flies by.   We're normally 
> looking at them through an ASM or IpKVM of some type which just makes 
> it harder.....   Our build process is already obnoxious enough 
> already.     I'll look into that further after I get this first batch 
> of servers delivered to the poor folks who are waiting on me right 
> now.  :-(  Thanks.
>

Cool, FWIW you can usually get the MAC from the BIOS ... or be really 
clever and make a default kickstart profile that does a minimal install 
with the sole purpose
of emailing you the mac addresses for easier future maintaince :)

Lots of fun can be had...



> Kit
>
>
>
> On 8/30/07, *Michael DeHaan* <mdehaan at redhat.com 
> <mailto:mdehaan at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Kit Stube wrote:
>     > Cobbler looks cool. Kinda like a front end for pxelinux and isc
>     > dhcpd?  The problem we have is we don't want to have to look up the
>     > mac address for a host in order to configure it.   Cobbler seems to
>     > rely on that.
>
>     Nah, you don't :)  At least not in newer versions ...
>
>     Starting with 0.6.x (0.6.1 is out today -- I recommend installing
>     that),
>     you can name a system anything arbitrarily.   If  you know the MAC
>     address, it helps to use that so we can assign a specific kickstart --
>     you can also use the ip if you know that instead.   Otherwise you can
>     pick a specific profile and just assign that to be the "default"
>     for all
>     PXE booting systems.  You can also use it to create a PXE menu, so you
>     can walk up to a machine while it's booting, type "menu", and pick
>     what
>     you want.
>
>     >
>     > Currently we have our dhcp server on an install network dump anyone
>     > that netboots on that network to a default pxelinux menu.  That
>     > default menu allows a person to chose an os to install.  Chosing one
>     > kicks them into one of several different default kickstart
>     files.   If
>     > I could get kickstart to ask for static network information like it
>     > would if I was installing from CD, I would be done.
>
>     I should have read further before typing.    Yeah, we can do that :)
>
>     The MAC address way of assigning the static info works really really
>     well though, if you can start doing it.  I like kickstarts to be fully
>     interactive because I can start them and not have to baby-sit.   Plus
>     mapping a system to a new profile is as easy as:
>
>     cobbler edit --name=<MAC> --profile=<newprofile>
>
>     --Michael
>
>
>     >
>     >
>     > On 8/30/07, *Riggs, Ben* <rigg0022 at umn.edu
>     <mailto:rigg0022 at umn.edu> <mailto:rigg0022 at umn.edu
>     <mailto:rigg0022 at umn.edu>>>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     >     Check out http://cobbler.et.redhat.com  It's made our life here
>     >     tons easier.
>     >
>     >     Ben
>     >
>     >     Kit Stube wrote:
>     >     > Is there an option that will allow me to automate
>     everything in
>     >     > kickstart except just the network portion so that I can
>     have the
>     >     same
>     >     > kickstart config for a bunch of clustered hosts but input the
>     >     network
>     >     > information myself?
>     >     >
>     >     > The reason I ask is because I would like to automate a lot
>     of other
>     >     > stuff in %post  or on first boot but need networking to be
>     set up
>     >     > properly by the time that stuff runs or it will screw all of
>     >     that up.
>     >     >
>     >     > Thanks in advance
>     >     > Kit Stube
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     >
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