We need a way automatically compute LVM disks. We can determine which disks by looking at /sys/block/sd[a-z]

Look here for examples.

When using KOAN to install Fedora 23 Atomic, when it gets to this in the install:

Starting pull of fedora-atomic/f23/x86_64/docker-host from fedora-atomic

A dialog box is presented denoting a fatal error:

Failed to pull from repository: g-io-error-quart: //run/install/repo/content/repo: open: No such file or directory (1)

Allow for the user to define pre work.

We need to ensure that % sections honor the version of the OS we are installing.

For example in CentOS 5.x, %packages does not end with %end.

Noting with Fedora 31, it appears that root login is not supported via ssh. The following is required in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

PermitRootLogin yes

Need the ability to affect change to the aforementioned file.

We need to ensure all sections support options and that those are denoted correctly. For example we need to provide a pre option like: %pre $getVar('pre', ''). Also we initially were using [section]_option as the variable. However now, we omit _option from the variable name.

Allow for the user to defined their own post section work.

Remove it

Need a post install snippet to run ansible-pull for provisioning.

It probably makes little sense to have a generic atomic_kickstart and common_kickstart snippets when we already have both module types.

Need to ensure we have option snippets for everything in the kickstart guide.

Fedora seems to short-change the full size of disk when automating installations. To work around it, one must manually execute:
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/[host name]/root -r

We need the ability to do this as part of a kickstart in the %post area.

Our system.ks is way to convoluted and should be refactored to be snippets. The system.ks should include the snippets.

Simplifying the computation of operating system name

and version...

if $getVar('$operatingSystem', '') == '' and $getVar('$os_version', '') != ''

#if $os_version.startswith('fedora')
    #set $operatingSystem = 'fedora'
#else if $os_version.startswith('rhel')
    #set $operatingSystem = 'rhel'
#end if

end if

if $getVar('$operatingSystemVersion', '') == ''

set $operatingSystemVersion = float($os_version.replace($operatingSystem, '0'))

end if

This won't work: #set $allLvmDisks = $getVar('lvmDisks', '') != '' and $getVar('lvmDisks').split(',').split(' ') or [] because the first comma split (if there are commas) turns the string into an array.

Also, / and swap are duplicated when we use LVM. We need to fix that and move these to snippets/modules/disk_partition_types/standard:

#set global $part = "/ " + ( $getVar('root', '') != '' and $getVar('root') or '--fstype="xfs" --size=1024 --recommended --grow')
$SNIPPET('flossware/options/part')

#set global $part = "swap " + ($getVar('swap', '') != '' and $getVar('part_swap') or '--fstype="swap" --recommended')
$SNIPPET('flossware/options/part')

Appears the Atomic snippets are being duplicated in the resultant kickstart. Probably some double call to the common module.

Need:

• snippets
• kickstarts

The wiki shows how to manually install. While this is good information, a script to do the needful is much more useful. Specifically the README.md has this:

Manual

Clone this git repo and:

• copy the contents of kickstarts to /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts.
• create a /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/flossware directory.
• copy the contents of snippets to /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/flossware.

We should provide a bash script that can do the aforementioned.

Presently, the default completionMethod is set to reboot. Let's change it to shutdown so that if we have wonky installs that require us to shutdown so we can do some changes before rebooting make "life easier."

Also, it seems like a shutdown is probably the better default option in general.

If one provides params for clearpart, extra dashes are added:

ksmeta='clearpart="--all --initlababel --drives=sda'"

Yields:
ksmeta='clearpart="----all --initlababel --drives=sda'"

This may be a problem across all options.

My cobbler server is 192.168.29.100. If the client is also in the VLAN of 29, the boot is normal. If the client is on another network segment, it will report pxe-11arp timeout PXE-E38: TFTP cannot open connection
What configuration files need to be changed?

My cobbler server is 192.168.29.100. If the client is also in the VLAN of 29, the boot is normal. If the client is on another network segment, it will report pxe-11arp timeout PXE-E38: TFTP cannot open connection
What configuration files need to be changed?

Need to create usable atomic kickstarts. Later we can create snippets to be more robust.

Fix the README.md

When attempting a Fedora 23 server install with KOAN, the install fails with:

dracut-initqueue[XYZ]: cat: /tmp/dd_disk: No such file or directory

Take existing atomic kickstarts and create appropriate snippets.

For this to work:

• post install for bridges
  • ifcfg-[bridge name]
  • update ifcfg-e[np* | th*]
  • /usr/lib/sysctl.d/00-system.conf
    • net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
• centos xen
  • yum install centos-release-xen
  • yum update
  • yum install xen
  • yum install libvirt
• kvm
  • yum install kvm virt-manager libvirt virt-install qemu-kvm xauth dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts

This:

## Copyright (C) 2016 flossware
##
## This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
## (at your option) any later version.
##
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
## GNU General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

All variables should be preceeded with $ per the Cheetah docs

We can simplify some of our logic simply by using Cheetah defs and creating "functions". We may want to reconsider the whole modules directory in favor of defs themselves.

Need spec file to create RPMs.