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.
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