Spacewalk, Kickstart, Cobbler, PXE, Dnsmasq

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I have installed a Spacewalk server. One of the final features I am trying to configure is Kickstart. I cannot seem to find any definitive documentation on how to set this up in a "real environment". We already have a DHCP server, I would like to use dnsmasq with PXE.

Since the documentation is scarce regarding Spacewalk, I have looked towards cobbler documentation.

Spacewalk 2.0 is bundled with Cobbler 2.0.11. A couple of sites suggest installing cobbler-loaders for additional features.

Environment

CentOS 6.4 (64-bit) / Spacewalk 2.0

Questions

  1. As I couldn't find in the "official documentation", should cobbler-loaders be installed?

  2. Is dnsmasq already installed as part of cobbler/Spacewalk or should it be installed using it's own package?

  3. Since cobbler seems to work independently to Spacewalk, should I be able to do a yum install cobbler for the latest version 2.4.3, or would that not be a wise course of action?

  4. Since I may have someone's attention, would there be a guide that I may have missed or someone has put together that would help?

Any assistance would be appreciated, thank you.

Best Answer

Upstream cobbler is at version 2.4.0. I can see no point in using something older.

The link is both to the current online docs of the product and a quickstart guide to having a working environment.

With regards to kickstart, the online Red Hat official documentation covers the topic in great detail.

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