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
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