Does this mean 2.4.0 is close? I've got a production shop that's waiting
with baited breath (mints close by) for the ability to use the
--available-as flag properly. I don't mean to put on pressure and am happy
to wait until it's production-ready. Just curious is all.


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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:31 AM, James Cammarata <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been making a lot of improvements in this area lately, so if this is
> a brand new installation of cobbler I'd recommend you grab the master
> branch via github and use that instead. Specifically, I've been fixing:
>
> * better apt repo support, to address the issue you mention above.
> Specifically now there are not separate repos for things like -security.
> Apt repos now have two new fields (apt_dists and apt_collections) so that
> you can mirror a lot more into a single repo. There are now also snippets
> to use these new repo configurations.
> * templated late/early command scripts support
> * debian network configuration (using the above late_command script
> support)
> * per-interface network gateways (since deb/ubuntu doesn't really have a
> gateway of last resort configuration like redhat does, at least not that
> I've found).
>
> Doing network configuration during the preseed is still a bit tricky, as
> preseed has a few hoops you need to jump through and doesn't always respect
> the d-i directives you specify. You'll probably want to continue to
> manually modify the preseed to use eth1 instead if that's the way you want
> to go.
>
> If you do decide to use the master branch, be sure to back up
> /etc/cobbler, /var/lib/cobbler and /var/www/cobbler to preserve anything
> you might have done so far (make install/make webtest can/will reset some
> files to the defaults).
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Rainer Duffner <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've installed a brand-new cobbler 2.4b5 server on centos6-amd64.
>> I need to install a couple of Ubuntu12 servers with it.
>> I've never installed Ubuntu before, much less via cobbler - so I'd be
>> grateful for some advice.
>>
>> The idea is to:
>>  - install via eth1
>>  - leave eth0 alone, or better, already give it the "final"
>>    configuration, via cobbler
>>
>> This works on my CentOS and RedHat installs on my "old" cobbler 2.2.3
>> server.
>> Obviously, it's not so simple with Ubuntu.
>>
>>
>> I've taken the sample.preseed file and adapted it minimally.
>>
>> One problem I have is:
>>  - if I try to enter the default gateway in the cobbler-webgui
>>    (Networking (Global)), I get problem that all leases are abandoned
>>    because somehow the interface is "up" before it gets an IP via DHCP
>>  - so, I try to set the default-gateway via a kickstart meta-parameter
>>  - the install then continues, but after the reboot, eth0 is not
>>    configured (neither is /etc/resolv.conf)
>>  - is one then supposed to run some sort of post-install script that
>>    "fixes" the network-configuration?
>>
>> I use
>> $SNIPPET('network_noncore_deb')
>> in the pressed/kickstart file, which reads:
>>
>> d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string $name_servers
>> d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string $ip_address_eth0
>> d-i netcfg/get_netmask string $netmask_eth0
>> d-i netcfg/get_gateway string $ksgateway
>> d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true
>>
>>
>> Another issue is that the installer tries to fetch a lot of files that
>> just aren't in my cobbler-repo of the imported CD.
>> How can I import the rest of the repo so that the install doesn't pause
>> so often?
>>
>> A third issue is that with Ubuntu at least, if the dhcp-server does not
>> supply a nameserver, the installation will ask for one....
>> So I supplied a non-existant one - but still, it bothers me a bit.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
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