[Spacewalk-list] Questions on kickstart

[Josh Preston]

Do you not use cobbler?  You should be able to get cobbler to generate dhcpd (ISC)/named(bind) configurations as well as (in my opinion) the easier dnsmasq.

In order to get it to add to the configurations, you need to add the host to cobbler before you kickstart.  i.e., use cobbler system add and ensure you set the appropriate fields (hostname, network, etc).

After the system is added, you'd perform a cobbler sync to get the configurations generated for the new host.  In fact, you'd should see a dhcpd.conf file entry that looks almost identical to the one you posted.

Thanks!

From: Mohit Vadhera <project.linux.proj at gmail.com<mailto:project.linux.proj at gmail.com>>
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Date: Monday, February 11, 2013 2:44 AM
To: spacewalk-list <spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>>
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Questions on kickstart

Hi,


I am following the url to configure Kickstart https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToKickstartCobbler . I have few questions to test for one machine and bigger network. I didn't work on Kickstart that much.

1) I want the kickstart to test for one IP. How can i restrict for one IP . Do I need to give below statements in dhcpd.conf for one IP or any better way ?

      host test {
            hardware ethernet 00:50:56:99:15:d6;
            fixed-address 192.20.3.250;
               }

2) In a bigger network where multi subnets works. How should I install new OS on the new machine.  Do I need to restrict dhcpd.conf every time to restrict one IP.  How will i manage ?

3) If there is a running machine and by mistake it boot up with PXE . This can reformat the machine and install the OS. How can i overcome this ?


Thanks,
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