My (tiny) Cobbler VM is almost full but I need to try out deployment of SLES/OpenSUSE. I’m going to attach a few extra chunks of storage to make room for ‘cobbler distro add’. You can do this with the GUI, but unless you’re allergic to CLIs I highly recommend the ‘VBoxManage’ section of the VirtualBox manual [...]
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bootstrapping Puppet from Cobbler
Cobbler handles kickstarts on my VirtualBox network , but I need it to take care of Puppet too. setup puppetmasterd I’ll run puppetmasterd on my Kickstart server (‘shoemaker’, also my Cobbler server). By default, puppetd expects puppetmasterd to be on a host called ‘puppet’. That’s easy to arrange. # setup a CNAME of ‘puppet’ that points [...]
PXE virtual network with Virtualbox and Cobbler
A while back I set up a virtual kickstart network with VMware Fusion and Cobbler on my Mac. But Fusion (unlike VMware server/workstation) made tweaking low-level settings hard, so I’ve switched to VirtualBox, which is free (for non-commercial/eductional use), has a kick-ass command line interface and much better networking options. Here’s a revised howto. why? I’ll just [...]
