We install the first server with kickstart off a USB flash drive. Then we have custom scripts to install and configure Cobbler. It's all automated so after about 20 minutes (including a couple of reboots) it's ready to start PXE booting clients. The USB flash drive is highly portable and easy to modify, and has enough space for all our software. We are currently using 8 GB drives which only cost about $30, but 16 GB drives are available if we need them and are still relatively cheap.
One thing I miss with this procedure is Cheetah. It would be handy to have Cheetah available during the initial (pre-Cobbler) kickstart. For now, we have to use a basic "dumb" kickstart configuration until Cobbler enters the scene. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Christian Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:11:59AM -0700, JAmes Atwill wrote: >> >> I'm curious how people bootstrap their initial cobbler instance. > > We need a master (snippets/postinstalls developed here) and some > slaves (fetching and using distros, snippets, postinstalls, > modifying snippets). > > Due to lack of pxe the slaves are set up with dvd-image. > yum install cobbler, distribution of the distro-repos via rsync > or 'cobbler repo sync', distribution and versioning of the > snippets/postinstallscripts/binaries for hardware-monitoring > via git or subversion. > > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > -- ... Chris Weaver _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
