New to RH Satellite server and Kickstart
Pablo Iranzo Gómez
Pablo.Iranzo at redhat.com
Thu Feb 14 15:26:06 UTC 2008
Hi
El jue, 14-02-2008 a las 16:19 +0100, Fuchs Andreas escribió:
> Hi
>
> I'm pretty new to RHN Satellite server and Kickstart and have a couple
> of questions.
>
> We have the Satellite server setup with the needed channels and a
> kickstart profile ready for those channels.
> Bare Metall installation is running ok ending with a installed system
> with no hostname (registered as "unknown" in the satellite server) and
> ip from DHCP.
>
> We wonder now:
>
> - How does the server get his Hostname?
From reverse IP resolution for your IP, the trick is to create an entry
with your desired hostname and IP address in /etc/hosts or using API to
edit shown name
> - How do we configure the Networks (there are severals including some
> bonding)?
Create your custom /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ to play around with
your desires, or do it the dirty way, putting them at /etc/rc.local
>
> What's best practice?
>
> - cloning a template kickstart profile for each server and adding the
> values?
> - create pre/post scripts who ask for the information during install?
> as we like this idea
This would be better
> - is there some documentation/examples/helper scripts to get a this
> nicely done?
%post
#!/bin/bash
chvt 3
echo "ENTER CONFIG #"
read valK
> - using config channels and also some kind of scripts to get hostname
> and ip?
Check for config file's macros
>
> Also:
>
> - is cobbler supporting/integrating with the satellite server
They're separate projects, probably could try at #cobbler on freenode
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