Hi,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Zack Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zack.perry@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">zack.perry@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:13.333333015441895px">Indeed! This follow-up is cc-ed to James.</span></font></div>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div class="im"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Another user recently pointed me towards this github repo:</div><div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/jtopjian/cobbler-admin" target="_blank">https://github.com/jtopjian/cobbler-admin</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I haven't gone through all of it, but there might be more items in there that might help you out. Specifically, there are some snippets to do static networking, which I was actually working on separately from this.</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><font face="arial"><div><font face="arial">Thanks for the pointer. I took a quick look of his snippets.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br></font></div>Yes. The overall approach is very similar to what I came up: let the DHCP server do whatever it wants, and use the preseed/late-command to do what "we" want.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial">After all, Cheetah engine will do templating for us, and cobbler has a light-weight built-in configuration management capability. </font></div><div><font face="arial"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial">But
this user's approach is more sophisticated. I will study it more.<br></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We have built some Debian/Ubuntu snippets here locally but there is some hard coded entries currently so we haven't released them publicly.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Be wary when he says that the RAID and LVM stuff is broken in preseed. It really isn't broken, it just takes some getting used to. I've written a bit about dealing with partman (Shameless plug) on my blog (<a href="http://bit.ly/ZKBkdJ">http://bit.ly/ZKBkdJ</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/SYoSHe">http://bit.ly/SYoSHe</a>) if you need some examples on how to use some of the advanced features disk features.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>I've also merged my signature branch into my master repo on github:</div><div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/jimi1283/cobbler" target="_blank">https://github.com/jimi1283/cobbler</a></div>
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<div>This is the branch I have been using to primarily test out ubuntu support, and I have done 12.04 and 12.10 successfully with it. So if you're comfortable with installing from source or if you have another system you could install it on for testing, you might want to give it a test.</div>
<div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><font face="arial">Sure. In this week, let me see how far I can go with the 2.4.0 from epel-testing in my evenings. After that, I will switch to yours.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial">One thing that I feel sorely missing: the ability to log a Ubuntu installation progress like what anamon does for RH alike systems. </font></div><div><font face="arial"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="arial">Sure, Alt-F4 allows me to watch the log on the fly, but that's not so convenient when things scrolling by rapidly. Also, after
the first post-install reboot, there are no traces left. If there are ways to generate and save logs for Ubuntu install, I would love to have a pointer or two.</font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>
</div><div>The logs are saved in /var/log/installer on the newly installed system so that you can view them after the installation.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font face="arial">-- Zack</font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><br></div>