On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
I’ve used FAI & cobbler, but prefer the latter. I like the hybrid web GUI / CLI aspect of cobbler. My current workplace uses a PXE/kickstart server that works OK; I just don’t like having to KVM into the box just to force PXE boot & start the kickstart. It’s good that the systems won’t ever accidentally reinstall themselves that way, but there are other ways to prevent something like that from happening. (A proposed solution was to have a build-only VLAN, and to disable the NIC to that network as a final step of the provisioning process. It’s too big of a change to make to an already-running environment, but if you’re just setting one up I’de highly recommend it.)
My solution to the problem of an install loop was to have the last step make a call back to the server to delete the IP specific symlink for the install and to have the default PXElinux selection to be "boot from hard drive".
I was also generating dynamic kickstart files via a short Ruby CGI script. There's a lot of customization that's really easy when you serve the kickstart via http.
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