I want to do something similar with Ubuntu. I've dropped the
kernel
image and initrd in place, and Cobbler finds these and launches the
installer. However, how do I get the preseed to be picked up? I
tried just passing it in as
--kickstart=/var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/my.preseed, but that didn't
seem to have any impact at all.
You can't do that without patching (probably). First of all, the
keyword to be passed during installation is not 'ks'. If your ubuntu
version support kickstarts and you use them, the keyword is 'kickseed'
(or at least was), for preseeds you must use 'url' (probably, don't
remember well). Probably, you avoid patching and just append them as
extra arguments to kernel for the selected entries, but that probably
prevent you from using snippet or any other feature.
And you must manage your install & update repos out of cobbler (doing
that is a quite different story).
Javier Palacios