On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like to increase the number of interesting snippets we ship with
> cobbler to make doing complex things with kickstart easier.
>
> I think things like "keep_ssh_host_keys" and the network config ones
> were really clever, and we probably have more useful ideas in everyone's
> kickstarts that we can build a better community around sharing.
>
> If you have any clever snippets you are using that are suitable for a
> wider audience, or ideas for some, post them up and/or let's talk about
> them here.
>
> These can be things for setting up specific applications, different
> options for disk configuration, and so forth.
>
> I forsee having each snippet start with a nice comment block in the long
> run so everyone can understand what they do and what variables
> (--ksmeta) they employ.
Here is a fairly obvious one I use for testing on new servers that
works like a champ if you use redhat/fedora based distributions. It
seems fine on generic (sd*), hp (cciss*), and xen (xvd*) servers. I
don't claim attribution for the xen part and, lvm is the devil:
#raw
if list-harddrives | grep -q sda; then
cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo.inc
part swap --size=8192 --ondisk=sda
part /boot --size=256 --fstype ext2 --ondisk=sda
part / --fstype ext3 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
EOF
elif list-harddrives | grep -q cciss; then
cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo.inc
part swap --size=8192 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
part /boot --size=256 --fstype ext2 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
part / --fstype ext3 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
EOF
elif list-harddrives | grep -q xvda; then
cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo.inc
part swap --size=1024 --ondisk=xvda
part /boot --size=256 --fstype ext2 --ondisk=xvda
part / --fstype ext3 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=xvda
EOF
else
echo "Check your raid configuration on this host" | tee /dev/ttyS0
exit 255
fi
#end raw
This requires a line towards the top like:
%include /tmp/partinfo.inc
It was a trick I stole from a previous job at Ticketmaster.
The calls to "list-harddrives" could be replaced with a bit of
heavylifting to make this distro agnostic but I'm not much interested
in doing that. If someone else wants to take that project on more
power to them.
--
Jeff Schroeder
Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix.
http://www.digitalprognosis.com
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