I think so, I'll take a look at this tomorrow, thanks!
-C On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > Corey Kovacs wrote: >> I was working on setting up my cobbler server today when it occurred >> to me that the ability to "chain" profiles might be useful. The >> concept would basically allow you to assign a sequence of profiles to >> run against a machine. >> >> For example. >> >> a system has profile1, profile2, profile3 >> >> profile1 boots to a firmware update image, then reboots and cobbler >> uses profile2 >> profile2 boots to the HP scripting toolkit, goes through it's >> gyrations, then reboots and cobbler uses profile3 >> profile3 boots into the standard kickstart mode and builds the machine >> as normal. >> >> Profile might not be the right word to describe this but I think the >> idea is clear. Seems it wouldn't be too much trouble to do this using >> the status mechanism. >> >> >> Has anyone done this in another way? >> >> Thanks for a great project by the way. >> > > I used to have a crazy implementation of this, but I've since discarded it. > > Thankfully, it's already doable. > > All you need to do is install koan and use koan with --replace-self in > %post, and then call /sbin/reboot. > > This lacks logging, however, but any failures earlier up on the post > script should terminate the installation and not make it reboot, > allowing you to do some debug. > > The trick though is that since the first profile is essentially generic, > you would need to set a --ks-meta variable on the system itself to tell > it what the name of profile2 is and profile3. > > Make sense? > > >> >> Corey >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
