That makes too much sense to be a right answer.  ;-)

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Asher Newcomer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Given that netboot will never be enabled does it matter what the
> profile/distro says? Can't you just insert any profile that will take and
> ignore those settings?
> On Dec 18, 2012 1:26 PM, "Bret Wortman" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> What values would you suggest providing for --kernel and --initrd on the
>> "cobbler distro add" command to create an empty distro? I've tried numerous
>> without joy.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Greg Swift <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Bret Wortman <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm setting up a new instance and there are devices which currently get
>>>> their IPs via dhcp, and we want to preserve that, but at this point their
>>>> OSes aren't ones we're still supporting (but which we don't want to upgrade
>>>> yet).
>>>>
>>>> How can I make sure cobbler manages their dhcp addresses (I don't want
>>>> two dhcp servers)? Is there a way to have a profile that doesn't point to a
>>>> distro?
>>>>
>>>
>>> In theory if you just make an empty distro/profile and don't enable
>>> netboot they should be able to be managed via cobbler system entries.
>>>
>>> but if that fails and they are going away and you just need to temporary
>>> support you can just put their entries in an include file and include that
>>> file inside the dhcpd.template file.
>>>
>>> -greg
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