Re: re: Stupid Cobbler Trick: PXE Booting SuSE-family distributions

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> David Mackintosh wrot
>
>> In the spirit of using tools beyond their original intent, I figured
>> out how to use cobbler to help automate setting up PXE install
>> environments for SuSE-family distributions.  
>
>> http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/Linux/SuSE/Using+Cobbler+with+SuSE
>
>> Presumably the principles here could be extended to any Linux
>> distribution.
>
>
> David,
>
> Neat stuff!
>
> Looking over the above example it seems that if you're going 
> interactive you could just leave off the kickstart parameter rather 
> than just passing in a filler argument.   However, I have a suggestion 
> that might be useful. 
> If you pass the address of an autoyast file to --kickstart, cobbler 
> will write (behind the scenes) a "ks=blah" line to the kernel command 
> line parameters.   I would expect SuSE would ignore this.   However, 
> adding a --kopts parameter that referenced the file (URL) given in 
> --kickstart would seemingly allow passing in a SuSE answer file.   
> Cobbler really doesn't know what a kickstart is, technically, it's 
> just a file to which some templating voodoo can be applied, so that 
> might be possible.    From http://www.suse.com/~ug/AutoYaST_FAQ.html 
> it appears this parameter is just "autoyast=" instead of "ks=", so