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.
* * *Bret Wortman* <http://damascusgrp.com/> http://damascusgrp.com/ <http://bretwortman.com/> http://about.me/wortmanbret 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > >
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