Miroslav Suchy wrote:
----- "Jan-Frode Myklebust" <[email protected]> wrote:
From https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToKickstartCobbler :
"
New features in 0.4 include
# Evolving support for Debian, SuSE, and Ubuntu (limited
exposure in
Spacewalk)
"
This page is about Cobbler. And Cobbler can kickstart this distribution. So you can probably kickstart this distribution, but you can not register them to Spacewalk.
Yeah, I find that Wiki page rather complicated to read -- it mixes what
the user needs to do with what the user doesn't need to know about
happening behind the scenes and would probably be better served by
having some screenshots -- the actual GUIs aren't really complicated,
nor does the user really need to know that deployment is cobbler powered.
Anyway, short answer, one can't kickstart SuSE, because SuSE doesn't use
kickstart :) SuSE uses AutoYast answer files. Thankfully this works
pretty much the same way.
You can add SuSE distributions to cobbler with:
cobbler distro add --name=suse-x --initrd=/path/to/initrd
--kernel=/path/to/kernel --breed=suse
Then when you specify a profile, the value you give for --kickstart is
really an autoyast file (template)
cobbler profile add --name=suse-x --kickstart=/path/to/autoyast.template
So you have to do this either at the command line level or using Cobbler
Web (http://server.example.org/cobbler/web) -- you can log in with a
spacewalk username/password for certain admin accounts.
AutoYaST files are XML, rather than being a domain specific
language/script.
I should add that some of the cobbler snippets and such that are useful
for Fedora/RHEL/CentOS etc, don't really work for SuSE, so there is a
bit less automation, but the basic infrastructure works for doing
physical installs and upgrades. Whether koan works on SuSE I'm not
sure of -- but if folks are interested in extending that support, I'd be
more than happy to have the help. We also have similar support
for Debian -- that's actually a little better and further along.
Spacewalk should not see distributions/profiles/systems if the breed is
not set to Red Hat -- if it does, or otherwise crashes, that would
probably be a bug.
--Michael
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