Hi!
I have recently got Cobbler to boot an Ubuntu Server. While I am using DHCP, which you are not, I cannot help you with the /etc/hosts part. As for the kickstart, I have created a commented preseed file, which might prove useful to you. Preseed is extremely undocumented, I cannot believe how such a core feature remain so vaguely documented after years. There are tutorials explaining how to setup partitioning, so that should not be a problem. I believe the official preseed documentation on Debian host is a long and explained example, however it does not feature all of the options available in preseed. Partitioning though is shown. As for the repos, to have a working install, you will need the debmirror package, as cobbler will invoke it when mirroring apt repos. When you import an ubuntu distro, it will mirror for you the main and restricted repos that are essential to an install. You can initiate repo download with the cobbler reposync commmand. The two repos take a few Gigs, so depending on your network, it can take some time. Should you have any other questions, I’ll try to answer them, though I am a Cobbler newbie myself. Feladó: Chris Johnson Elküldve: szerda, 2014. július 9. 21:04 Címzett: [email protected], R. Christopher Johnson Hi, I haven't kept up with this thread as closely as I'd like, Cobbler was not originally written with Ubuntu in mind, I believe it was a CentOS tool at first. And I have cobbler running on a VBox VM provisioning a virtual mini-cluster with CentOS across several real hosts as well as puppet. I'd like to try a PXE install of Ubuntu. As I recall there has been debate on this subject. The documentation I've found uses DHCP which I'm not using, an Ubuntu mini (which asks no question) and I'm completely unclear on what repo I'd need. I understand Ubuntu does has a kickstart system. I don't know how closely related it is to the CentOS kickstart. Is there any documentation on installing Ubuntu via cobbler using a simple /etc/hosts table, not DHCP, and a kickstart? Or has anyone done this and can give some serious hints/help/advise? I need to know where to get an Ubuntu repo the would work with cobbler, what cobbler reconfigs would be necessary if any, and a simple one partition one swap file kickstart for it. If it's possible at all of course. I recall there having been progress in this direction but unclear on how much. Thank you. Chris J. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
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