Pete Eby wrote: > Michael DeHaan wrote: > > >>> The XML file works fine when I grab it from another server so I know the >>> file is okay and being parsed fine. It just can't get the file from >>> where it is supposed to be on Cobbler, so I am pretty sure it is >>> permissions on the Cobbler side. >>> >>> >>> >> I don't think you understand. >> >> If a parameter to --kickstart in cobbler is on the local filesystem, >> it's treated as a template. >> >> If you add a --kickstart=http://, it's used verbatim. >> >> I'm pretty sure it's /not/ permissions on the cobbler side. >> >> > > Hi Michael - thanks for the help. > > I still don't get it though. I created a new kickstart file and modifed > the Suse profile to include /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/Suse11Yast as > the kickstart. You can view the rendered ks and it is fine. Did a > Cobbler sync. >
ok.... > Then you boot up and select Suse from the PXE menu and the autoyast= > argument is still here and the ks= argument is not. Plus, even if it > were, I think the Suse kernel is going to expect to get an autoyast and > not ks argument > This sounds like exactly what you want, since you are doing a SuSE install and not a kickstart install. > (Maybe I just need to delete the distro and recreate it with with > --kickstart option and not the --breed=suse option) > > Also, where DOES the autoyast argument get stored though? I don't think I understand "get stored". > I could very > easily just change it to point to where I have the file and it will work > fine - for example, I can just hit table on the boot menu and modify the > autoyast=http://whatever.com/my-autoyast and it works perfectly, no > problem - except I can't seem to find where the autoyast kernel argument > is saved so you have to manually change it each time. > Cobbler profile edit --name=foo --kickstart=/path/to/template as I said, it's a template *NOT* a kickstart file, so this is probably why your install is not working for you. if you do --kickstart=http://url it will see that it's an external file and not attempt to templatize the file, but you should take the time to get the template working seeing it's not hard to do. cobbler profile getks --name=foo will show you want the template fed to the installer would be, and most likely it has some issues that need to be resolved, that could probably be solved easily by including it a #raw ... #endraw block or otherwise doing some extra escaping. > I will test this more next week - thanks again for you help. I would > like to be able to use these autoyast files to automate our Suse > installs, so I appreciate the tips. > > Cheers, > Pete > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
