I don't know - just trying to help. I have 4 machines at home...and I use Cobbler specifically because I want reproducability...well worth the time I spent to learn it. When I lost a harddrive in my laptop, I replaced it...selected the Cobbler system record for it...and my laptop was ready to go reprovisioned and all.
Again, I was just trying to help - sorry, if I over-engineered solution...
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Scot P. Floess sfloess@nc.rr.com wrote:
You could setup Cobbler and koan install the other machines from the Cobbler server.
Cobbler uses a nice templating engine (Cheetah) and I've managed to use that within the kickstart file Cobbler serves up to specify packages to install for a given machine. So for example on Machine A, I can have the foo package installed and on Machine B install the bar package...
Cobbler even supports PXE booting clients to get installs started...
How long does it take to learn the templating language compared to sshing to a few machines in separate windows and pasting in a 'yum install list_of_packages' command?
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