you can always use http://theforeman.org to do the provisioning for you.

Ohad

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Michal Ludvig <mlud...@logix.net.nz>wrote:

>  Hi guys,
>
> I'm installing Puppet on RHEL5 systems using KickStart but struggle with
> the first boot.
>
> Here's my situation:
> 1) kickstart installs the system, including puppet from our local repo
> 2) after reboot I have to login and set the hostname and IP
> 3) then run puppet, register it with the server and bring in the config
> 4) configure puppet for automatic start
>
> I have to configure the hostname before running puppet for the first time,
> otherwise it makes its certificate with a wrong name (either 'localhost' or
> something supplied by dhcp). I'm aware this is not really a Puppet question
> but how do you guys do this? How do you (semi-)automatically configure the
> hostname before running puppet for the first time?
>
> Thanks
>
> M.
>
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