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