On Apr 30, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote: > Gino LV. Ledesma wrote: >> >> What I'd like to >> tell cobbler (step 3) is that I'm provisioning this machine for a >> specific user -- perhaps by passing something onto the kernel command >> line as a parameter, and then having the post-install section do the >> customization based on that. For example, I could pass in >> username=$username and then a script/trigger could fire off and >> lookup >> a DB for that user, and then create the >> accounts/profiles/apps/configs/etc automatically. >> > > What many folks do is create a web interface that allows the user to > answer specific questions, and then save those answers > as template varariables in the system objects which are used when > evaluating the kickstart template. > > If you want to do this via PXE you must create system records.
Guys: What about making a custom image that runs the koan system register stuff? The biggest issue is to avoid having to get the MAC address into Cobbler. If you could make a custom PXE that runs on all boxes by default, and prompts for a username, or even looks up a user name -> profile name, and then runs the proper system add command, you could probably get exactly what you wanted... It's a combination of what Gino wants, and getting that system record into Cobbler... and everyone ends up ahead. Matthew _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
