On Thursday, February 16, 2012, Michael DeHaan elucidated thus: > > OK, I understand that that there was no hostname assigned. However, > > how do you assign one when you're installing with koan and > > --profile? I supplied a --virt-name, which I expected to be the > > name it used to auto- register the machine. There could be a way > > to specify a hostname when doing a 'koan --profile' install, but > > I'm not seeing it. > > The system failed to detect the hostname from running *inside* the > guest, it has nothing to do with what parameters you set on the > hypervisor. It got "localhost.localdomain" back, more or less, > and decided that wasn't going to be unique enough. > > You could possibly use Cobbler with manage_dhcp and manage_dns to > ensure you gave out a particular hostname, though ordinarily I'd > expect you to at least get a dhcpXXX hostname if you have DHCP. In > this way, you would procreate the system before it exists rather > than using koan with --profile, you'd declare the system, assign a > MAC and IP, and use koan with --system instead to bring that system > to life. Much better, IMHO.
Yes, that is what I tried to do (pre-create the systems, configure the DHCP, hostname, etc.) then used koan --system, but the system did not inherit its profile's Kickstart Metadata. Is there a way I can troubleshoot this? Some way I can dump the information koan is passing to the install so I can see if the kickstart metadata is being "lost" somewhere in the process? > Keep in mind cobbler-register has *NOTHING* to do with koan at all, <SNIP> > cobbler-register is more for folks who have a large network of > machines they already provisioned using something else, and need to > get them into cobbler so they can reprovision, etc. Gotcha. j -- Joshua J. Kugler - Fairbanks, Alaska Azariah Enterprises - Programming and Website Design [email protected] - Jabber: [email protected] PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
