<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Does each blade have its own optical drive ?<br><br><div><span name="x"></span>“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”<br>Bill Waterson (Calvin &amp; Hobbes)<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Sam Sen" &lt;ssen@ariasystems.com&gt;<br><b>To: </b>"cobbler mailing list" &lt;cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org&gt;<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:49:12 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile<br><br>



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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hmmmm … so if I have 12 blades to build, is there a quicker way to do this? I would like to boot from ISO (the same ISO for all 12 systems) and have cobbler take over. I don’t think this will work without PXE
 based on what you’re telling me.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Sam</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan White<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cobbler mailing list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">The default behavior of the ISO is to boot from local media after a delay<br>
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Look at a file : &lt;iso root&gt;/isolinux/isolinux.cfg</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”<br>
Bill Waterson (Calvin &amp; Hobbes)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">"Sam Sen" &lt;<a href="mailto:ssen@ariasystems.com" target="_blank">ssen@ariasystems.com</a>&gt;<br>
<b>To: </b>"cobbler mailing list" &lt;<a href="mailto:cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org" target="_blank">cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org</a>&gt;<br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:36:07 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile<br>
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</span></p>
<pre><span style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">When the system boots up and loads the ISO, I thought it would automatically force the system to load a profile. In theory since there is no OS installed, it will start the OS installation without having you select from the cobbler menu.</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">&nbsp;</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Is this feature not available for non-pxe boot?</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Dan White &lt;<a href="mailto:ygor@comcast.net" target="_blank">ygor@comcast.net</a>&gt; wrote:</span></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">So what is happening that should not happen ?<br>
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Contrarywise, what is not happening that should ?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”<br>
Bill Waterson (Calvin &amp; Hobbes)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">"Sam Sen" &lt;<a href="mailto:ssen@ariasystems.com" target="_blank">ssen@ariasystems.com</a>&gt;<br>
<b>To: </b>"cobbler mailing list" &lt;<a href="mailto:cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org" target="_blank">cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org</a>&gt;<br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:22:47 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It’s there …</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">&nbsp;</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">&nbsp;</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">[root@phl-00-cobbler iso]# cobbler profile list</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">&nbsp;&nbsp; ORACLE</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">&nbsp;</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">&nbsp;</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards,</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">&nbsp;</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Sam</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">&nbsp;</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">
<a href="mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org" target="_blank">cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org</a> [<a href="mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org" target="_blank">mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan White<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cobbler mailing list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">What does the command "cobbler profile list" return ?<br>
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If one of the lines is not "ORACLE", then that is your first problem.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”<br>
Bill Waterson (Calvin &amp; Hobbes)</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">"Sam Sen" &lt;<a href="mailto:ssen@ariasystems.com" target="_blank">ssen@ariasystems.com</a>&gt;<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org" target="_blank">cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:06:56 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>[cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile<br>
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</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Not sure what I’m missing but I’m attempting to automatically install the OS with our new blade systems using a cobbler iso (generated by buildiso). The cobbler menu shows up with the list of available systems,
 but I want it to automatically install when it loads the ISO. I don’t have DHCP hence the use of the buildiso command.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I added a new system by running the following command. Please note, the install works fine when I select the system but that’s not what I want. Notice I have the “mac” specified and I went as far as using the mac
 address of eth0 as the name for the system. Both times, I’m greeted with the menu and I’m forced to choose.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">cobbler system add --name=blade1 –mac=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX --profile=ORACLE --interface=bond0 --interface-type=bond --bonding-opts="mode=6 miimon=1000" --ip-address=172.31.20.45 --hostname=blade1.domain.com --ksmeta='server_type=DB
 disk_layout=BLADES_ORACLE' --subnet=255.255.255.0 --gateway=172.31.20.250 --kopts='ksdevice=eth0 ip=172.31.20.45 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=172.31.10.220 gateway=172.31.20.250' --static=1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">--</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Sam Sen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Sr Systems Administrator</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">215.913.4797</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Aria Systems, Inc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">600 Reed Road, Suite 302</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Broomall, PA 19008</span></p>
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