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This article introduces the knowledge of "detailed steps to install Cobbler under Linux". Many people will encounter this dilemma in the operation of actual cases, so let the editor lead you to learn how to deal with these situations. I hope you can read it carefully and be able to achieve something!

A brief introduction to cobbler

Cobbler is an open source project supported by Redhat to deploy and install systems. Therefore, it is better to support Redhat series os. But the support for ubuntu is very poor. There are many settings in cobbler that are only valid for redhat, but also because the installation of different distributions is different. Cobbler seems to have a strained relationship with ubuntu.

Cobbler is not only a pxe server, it can also manage dns (bind), dhcp. In general, dhcp is not allowed in data centers or production environments, but pxe must require dhcp, so we need to allocate IP according to the mac address, so that dhcp will not affect the network.

1. Install cobbler

Configure epel source http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/fedora/epel/6/i386/ in advance

[root@60sec /] # yum-y install cobbler

[root@60sec /] # service httpd start

Starting httpd: [OK]

[root@60sec /] # service cobblerd start

Starting cobbler daemon: [OK]

2. Execute the cobbler check command to check the existing problems, and then follow the prompts to solve them one by one

[root@60sec /] # vim / etc/cobbler/settings

Next_server: 192.168.83.137

Server: 192.168.83.137

Manage_tftpd: 0

[root@60sec /] # yum-y install syslinux

[root@60sec /] # chkconfig rsync on

[root@60sec /] # yum-y install pykickstart

[root@60sec /] # openssl passwd-1-salt 'openssl rand-hex 4'

Password:

$1$ openssl $.oduSwbhLj6jqAwVsLo/H1

[root@60sec /] # vim / etc/cobbler/settings

Default_password_crypted: "penssl $.oduSwbhLj6jqAwVsLo / H1"

[root@60sec /] # cd / usr/share/syslinux/

[root@60sec syslinux] # cp-r. / * / var/lib/cobbler/loaders/

3. Install the dhcp service

[root@60sec /] # yum-y install dhcp

[root@60sec /] # cp/ usr/share/doc/dhcp-4.1.1/dhcpd.conf.sample / etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

[root@60sec /] # vim / etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

Option domain-name "60sec.com"

Option domain-name-servers 192.168.83.137

Default-lease-time 43300

Max-lease-time 86500

Subnet 192.168.83.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

Range 192.168.83.50 192.168.83.100

Option routers 192.168.83.137

}

Next-server 192.168.83.137

Filename= "pxelinux.0"

[root@60sec /] # service dhcpd start

Starting dhcpd: [OK]

4. Enable tftp service

[root@60sec /] # chkconfig tftp on

[root@60sec /] # service xinetd start

Starting xinetd: [OK]

5. Define distro, mount the CD and import it

[root@60sec /] # mount-r / dev/cdrom / media/

[root@60sec /] # cobbler import-name=centos-6.5-x86_64-path=/media

6. If you have a kickstart file, use "--kickstart=/path/to/kickstart_file" to import, or use the following command to detect

You can use system-config-kickstart to make kickstart files. The ks files of cobbler are placed under / var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/ by default to customize the ks files according to different requirements.

[root@60sec mnt] # ksvalidator centos6.x86_64.cfg

7. Setting up profile,profile can be understood as classifying according to installation requirements.

[root@60sec mnt] # cobbler profile add-name=CenTos-6.5-x86_64-basic-distro=centos-6.5-x86_64-kickstart=/mnt/centos6.x86_64.cfg

[root@60sec mnt] # cobbler profile list

CenTos-6.5-x86_64-basic

Centos-6.5-x86_64

[root@60sec mnt] # cobbler sync

[root@60sec mnt] # service cobblerd restart

Relevant information can be modified

[root@60sec mnt] # vim / var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

8. Recreate the virtual machine test

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