A while back Robin Bowes contributed a snippet on the Wiki that was intended to allow the IP/MAC information used for static cobbler setups to be better used to auto-generate the "network" lines in a kickstart file.
I have reworked this snippet to make it more useful for the DHCP case, and in addition have added the "--static=0/1" option to Cobbler system objects. This makes it now possible for cobbler system objects to have a mixture of static and DHCP interfaces and have them all templated out in the kickstart file correctly. This is described here: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/CobblerNetworkTemplatingForKickstart The "sample*.ks" kickstart templates will be edited such that they all use this new "SNIPPET::network_config" code. If such code is used for a profile based install, it will just provide one DHCP interface, so static cobbler users are advised to use all system records (as was really the case before with the other static setup snippet). Anyway, this finally brings this feature into the mainstream. I'll also be adding the "static Y/N" boolean to the cobbler interface editor in the Web app. Hopefully this is useful for all static-IP shops that are tired of fighting somewhat with Anaconda as well as doing their own Cheetah templating for that. For those that don't understand this, you can ignore it, though it will be the default for new users and they should find it "just works". If someone has a cobbler system record and they do not define any interfaces as static they will always get at least one DHCP interface so it all works out of the box. This is on the devel branch now for those that would like to check it out, I'm still editing the snippets and web app. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
