Hi!
I just used cobbler to install Fedora 17 x86_64 on my laptop, and it
worked quite nicely! I copied the sample.ks kickstart provided by
cobbler to sample1.ks file and modified that to comment out the skipx
line thinking this would get me a graphical install:
# skipx
My laptop booted pxelinux.0, but then I got error messages from dracut
such as this:
dracut Warning: no suitable images
dracut Warning: unable to process initqueue
After some thinking and research about this I realized that the profile
I added named "Fedora-17-x86_64" was not pointing at a kickstart file,
so I edited it:
cobbler profile edit name=Fedora-17-x86_64
--kickstart=/var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/sample1.ks
Then I tried another installation attempt. This stopped abruptly with
the error message:
The following error was found while parsing the kickstart configuration
file:
Section %pre does not end with %end
So I added %end to the end of the %pre, %packages and %post.
This got me a successful and basic non-gui installation. I was able to
reboot, login as the root user, and do a yum update.
I have some questions. I want this laptop computer to start interface
'wlan0' (the wireless card) most of the time and connect to ssid
'hygrophila' if possible. If it is plugged in to a wired connection,
interface eth0, then it should prefer that instead, and I want to assign
it a static ip address. How do I do this? Do I pass a network string
through the cobbler system I have defined for this laptop?
Or, should I be passing system-specific settings through "snippets"?
Evidently, I am going to need to edit sample1.ks a few times and then do
a fresh install on the laptop after each round of editing the kickstart,
until I get it correct. I assume that if I change the "system" entry
netboot-enabled=false to netboot-enabled=true, this will let me try out
a fresh install and see if I got it right.
Likewise, if I want to set the hostname of the laptop, I should be doing
this through the system entry, rather than through the kickstart.
Thanks
Bob Cochran
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