Sorry you have been having problems. Cobbler was originally developed to support Fedora, Red Hat, and CentOS -- and SLES came along later. Both are pretty simple. Debian/Ubuntu support is more recent but not exactly that old either. Previously it was added and then removed because various core features (repo add, etc) were incomplete -- now imports have gotten better, but unfortunately documentation hasn't been updated much -- basically at all, which really sucks -- so the process of setting it up is not documented, nor is the process of working on it there from a development perspective. I would like the Canonical folks using it in Orchestra to do this -- wink wink, nudge nudge, but maybe someone here can be of service. Docs would make your distro easier to consume and deploy -- and even be experimented with by people on other platforms -- again, @Canonical, hint hint. However they don't usually answer questions here, so may I interest you in some easier to consume, much better Fedora? :)
As for DHCP management, that itself is not so hard to understand and we can definitely help answer questions around that, but it sounds like you have other challenges to chase first. It's generally not something you start using unless you get the basics set up, then you just follow the Wiki docs. --Michael On Friday, January 20, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Javier Domingo wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to use cobbler, and didn't succeed, so I am coming here. > My main idea was to develop a system, that having a central computer, was > able to leave blank with all the packages installed when needed. > > I started searching about all the stuff I could use, and the most similar > thing I found to what I was planning to create, was cobbler. I must say that > I am going to use cobbler in Ubuntu, to deploy Ubuntu. I installed the > cobbler package, and for me was all messy, I started to read docs, and were > all about importing systems, configuring proxys, etc. > > I know it is a server deployment feature system, and that importing systems > could be usefull etc. But I didn't find how to get pxe-s in the system. I > might be easy, but I don't get the right way. I also wanted to use that DHCP > management, but I don't understand how it works, or if it works without it. > > Also the same thing about mirroring and tftpd. > > So my questions are, > > 1) Is it possible to use cobbler to just manage a bootptab file, and the > tftpd-dir with all the images I want to use? > > 2) Does cobbler do some of those things about PXE? I mean, does it have the > tftpd, and the DHCP servers included? > > 3) Isn't there any easy way to configure the repos with apt-cacher-ng? (Don't > actually like squid) > > 4) Is it possible to use all that great configuration interface cobbler-web > has, with profiles management, systems, etc. But changing the bellow apps? > > > I hope this isn't too newbie, > > Javier Domingo > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org (mailto:cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org) > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > >
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