On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, JAmes Atwill wrote:
Hi,
I'm curious how people bootstrap their initial cobbler instance. My cobbler
installation is a VM on a Xen Host which involes configuring a base system, then a VM,
then cobbler. Has anyone come up with any other clever ways of automating this?
JAmes
We use an rpm package (cobbler-config per se), that has all the right
dependencies, snippets, users, drops in an appropriate (to our env)
/etc/httpd/conf.d/cobbler.conf, etc. yum install that guy, start the syncs
and you're off (we haven't automated the syncs because of disk space,
bandwidth/scheduling issues).
We have versions for el4 and el5 bases. The base OS may be preexistent,
or can be built from one of the existing cobbler servers.
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