I tried doing it with the if statement but it kept erroring out for some reason. I ended up getting it to work using the advance snippet setup using per_system.
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Kickstart%20snippets On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:06 PM, James Cammarata <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:15 PM, James Clendenan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Personally I would just use a tag and in the partitioning section test > if that tag is set or not. It gets a bit more interesting when you start > merging roles so keeping each of the tags as atomic as possible is useful. > But I have had to do this when doing bake offs with different raid > configurations in the past and it works well. > > > >> I have a blade server that I'm building using cobbler to be a hadoop > cluster. Since the data nodes like seeing the individual drives, I'm going > to partition those differently than the other nodes. > >> > >> Is there a recommended method to handling the parititions? Everything > else about the kickstart will be the same. > > I do pretty much the same method as James, in which I create > sub-profiles and set ksmeta variables in them. For instance, we have > Oracle DB servers, which require more swap and different partitioning > than our standard build, so I create a sub-profile (ie. > rhel6.2-x86_64-oracle) and add --ksmeta="is_oracle=1" to the system. > Then my partitioning snippet checks for that ksmeta variable and adds > partitions accordingly, like: > > #if $is_oracle > ... > #else > ... > #end if > > We do the same thing for VMs, since they typically have much smaller > disks allocated to them. Then I just use those sub-profiles as needed > instead of the parent profile. The nice thing is, I can copy them and > easily duplicate them as I add new distros. > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
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