Hi All,

I've been looking at Cobbler for some time, and i've finally had cause
to use it to provision a relatively small number of machines (~50).
Its an ace tool, and has worked really well. I've only just started
looking into its more advanced features, and i'm already amazed!

During the course of installing Cobbler, I found some paths at
http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/cobbler-dhcp.php (at least incorrect on a
RHEL5 machine). I'd have thought that RHEL5/FC6 would be the standard
"stable" distribution to install Cobbler onto, so thought it might be
worth updating the paragraph "Enabling DHCP Management" to read the
following:

"Change /etc/cobbler/settings so that manage_dhcp has the value of 1.
Edit /etc/cobbler/cobbler/dhcp.template to taste -- mainly just making
sure that the DHCP information is correct."

I also wondered if it would be sensible to include the variations from
the sample kickstarts that are required to kickstart RHEL{3,4,5}
perhaps in comments inside sample.ks? I couldnt find it documented
anywhere (i'm sure it is, but I ended up working this out by trial end
error):

For RHEL5
# Add activation Keys - Otherwise hangs waiting for activation key
key --skip

For RHEL4
# Add System language - Otherwise hangs waiting for default language choice
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8

For RHEL3:
# Remove  --onboot=on from the network line
# Remove selinux --disabled
# Add mouse:
mouse genericps/2 --device psaux --emulthree

I'll try to add some of this to the Wiki, but there doesent seem to be
an obvious place - any suggestions?

Alex
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