Michael Calmer wrote: % Hi, % ... % > how does registration from this bootstrap image differs from the % > situation when I create standard kickstart with minimal set of packages % > to register the system to my org and boot the system from this kickstart? % % Not too much. % % * we use now also rhnreg_ks with a special activation key which give you a % bootstrap entitlementen and no base channel is assigned. % * bootstrap entitlements are "free" (20000 per org) % this is not so important for spacewalk, but for SUSE Manager and Satellite % where you have to pay for management entitlements
So do we need entitle such system at all? Nowadays there can be unetitled system in spacewalk. Does bootstrap entitlement brings us something more than current unetitled system? % * directly after registration it does a shutdown That's a feature of the boot image, right? So I could achieve the same with 'poweroff' in post install kickstart script. % * nothing is installed on the harddisk, the image exists only in RAM % - this give you the possibility to see the host in spacewalk and assign % the final kickstart profile to this host. If you turn this host on again % it boots again via PXE and install the correct profile. % If you use a re-registration key, the history will stay. Yes, we can't create such boot image in satellite right now. So I'd have to create external distribution with memory only image and import it to satellite. Then I'd have to create an activation key which asigns no base channel and no entitlements to systems. And I'd also have to manage kickstart based on this distribution + activation key to be the default pxe image. Is it all I need? Just trying to figure out whether we can't achieve the same goal somehow easier with the current code... Regards, -- Michael Mráka Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
