On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Michael DeHaan<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/04/2009 06:41 PM, Paras pradhan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have created a profile using
>>
>>   cobbler profile add --name=myxenprofile --distro=centos-xen-x86_64
>> --kickstart=/opt/guest2-vm--ks.cfg
>>
>> ks file looks like:
>>
>>
>> -----
>> install
>> nfs --server=nfsserver --dir=/centos64
>> lang en_US.UTF-8
>> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip  X.X.X.40 --netmask
>> 255.255.255.0 --gateway X.X.X.5 --nameserver X.X.X.93 --hostname
>> vmguest --onboot=on
>> rootpw --iscrypted $1$k5/VMCHk$Ykdy/1qdt3GL2s490jvGP/
>> firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
>> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
>> selinux --enforcing
>> timezone --utc America/Chicago
>> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda --append="console=xvc0"
>> # The following is the partition information you requested
>> # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
>> # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
>> # not guaranteed to work
>> #clearpart --linux --drives=xvda
>> #part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=xvda
>> #part pv.2 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=xvda
>> #volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
>> #logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 
>> --grow
>> #logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00
>> --size=528 --grow --maxsize=1056
>>
>> %packages
>> @editors
>> @text-internet
>> @dialup
>> @core
>> @base
>> device-mapper-multipath
>> -----
>>
>> At the client side (where I want my VM to be created), I did
>>
>>   koan --virt --server=cobblerserver --profile=myxenprofile --nogfx
>>
>> ..
>>
>> But why the installation procedure is not taking X.X.X.40 and asking
>> me to enter ip, mask, gw and dns?
>>
>>
>
> If that's your kickstart wrapping the network line and not the mail
> reader, that would be it. Syntax errors in a kickstart file can make a
> kickstart go interactive.

Thats just a wrapping. in this email. it is fine inside the file....

>
> Try "cobbler validateks" and see if it gets anything.

I got this:

*** all kickstarts seem to be ok ***




>
> I also see that your password info is not escaped. Remember Cobbler uses
> kickstart templates, not kickstarts, so you can't just pass things in
> verbatim. I'm not sure if you were sharing the contents or the template
> or the results of "cobbler profile getks --name=foo" but that's
> something to start with.
That was the o/p of:

cobbler profile getks --name=myxenprofile

>
>> What's wrong this ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Paras.
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Thanks
Paras.
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