On 03/02/2010 11:20 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
You can use cobbler and install clients without DHCP/PXE. When you run koan, you pass in all of the normal kickstart options you would use to configure a static network interface (ip, netmask, gateway, dns, ksdevice, etc.). Koan will download the kickstart config and initrd/vmlinuz images you need to boot up, plus add all of the grub entries you need to automatically get into the kickstart after a reboot. On your next reboot, it will choose that entry in grub, immediately go into kickstart mode, and follow the config in the ks.cfg file that it pulled from the cobbler server.
Cool, that makes sense - thanks! It hadn't occurred to me that I could add a new kernel and initrd to grub.conf with the required append line, and then just reboot. Obvious when you think about it!
Also, look into Joshua's reply for setting up the same thing that koan does up w/o the cobbler server part. If you are just going to do this a single time and don't think you'd want cobbler or have something else for kickstarts, his advice is great.
Good luck.
Tom