Hi,
I have been trying to use cobbler, and didn't succeed, so I am coming here.
My main idea was to develop a system, that having a central computer, was
able to leave blank with all the packages installed when needed.
I started searching about all the stuff I could use, and the most similar
thing I found to what I was planning to create, was cobbler. I must say
that I am going to use cobbler in Ubuntu, to deploy Ubuntu. I installed the
cobbler package, and for me was all messy, I started to read docs, and were
all about importing systems, configuring proxys, etc.
I know it is a server deployment feature system, and that importing systems
could be usefull etc. But I didn't find how to get pxe-s in the system. I
might be easy, but I don't get the right way. I also wanted to use that
DHCP management, but I don't understand how it works, or if it works
without it.
Also the same thing about mirroring and tftpd.
So my questions are,
1) Is it possible to use cobbler to just manage a bootptab file, and the
tftpd-dir with all the images I want to use?
2) Does cobbler do some of those things about PXE? I mean, does it have the
tftpd, and the DHCP servers included?
3) Isn't there any easy way to configure the repos with apt-cacher-ng?
(Don't actually like squid)
4) Is it possible to use all that great configuration interface cobbler-web
has, with profiles management, systems, etc. But changing the bellow apps?
I hope this isn't too newbie,
Javier Domingo