I am still setting up my Cobbler server (version 2.3.1, and I
installed
and updated from the Github source). I have added a bunch of distros
such as CentOS and Fedora 17. Now I want to put a new hard drive in my
laptop and install Fedora 17 to the laptop with Cobbler.
I am wondering if I absolutely must use a kickstart file? Suppose I
don't asssociate a profile with a kickstart, and then pxeboot my laptop,
will I be able to install Fedora 17 "as if" I had put an installation
DVD in the DVD drive, and be walked through the entire installation by
Anaconda? That is what I would like to do.
I do have two kickstart files I used for installing Fedora 14. Perhaps I
used these with an older version of cobbler. I'm not sure I remember the
passwords embedded in them. Nor am I sure the package names used in
Fedora 17 are the same as those in Fedora 14.
You can use an empty file, and it will just prompt you for all the
input like a normal interactive installation. Kind of defeats the
purpose of using cobbler, but you can do it. You should use the
default kickstarts that come with cobbler if you don't have any
attachment to your old ones, and you can change the root password in
the kickstart much easier.