On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Bob Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Yes, this needs to be fixed. It used to be optional but appears to be required now. It's just good practice to have it anyway. > 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. The "text" option is in the default kernel opts in /etc/cobbler/settings - remove that and you should get a GUI. > 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"? Doing everything but the SSID should be supported out of the box with cobbler. For the SSID part, I'd edit the network snippets (pre and post) to read the SSID from ksmeta and set it that way. > 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. Yep. > 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. Yep. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
