Hi Andrew,
Good question ;-) I will use Larry Wall's phrase to answer you: "there is more
than one way to do it" :-)
Furthermore, IMHO by selecting the desired anaconda mode in the kickstart template, I save
effort/time in maintaining our many profiles. With kickstart templating, even for three
distros and various profiles, we only need one short master rh.cfg.
Sometimes, I do avoid to use cobbler's built-in features. For example, I prefer to use
a central logging server for all distros that we use (CentOS, Fedora, SL, Ubuntu) for
remote installation logging and monitoring, but AFAIK the anamon cobbler facility only
works for Red Hat alike system so far. [...]
The naming convention makes it feasible to use the above Cheetah
conditional check.
Why didn't you just add the text option to the kernel options line for the profiles
if you have the different ones? I'm just curious.
Regards,
Andrew
Regards,
-- Zack