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 at 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? > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware http://flossware.sourceforge.net https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare