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Provisioning servers through Cobbler

We are now a few steps away from having our first server up and running through Cobbler. Basically, we need to tell Cobbler our clients' MAC addresses and which operating systems they have:

Import the Linux ISO. Cobbler will automatically analyze the image and create a profile for it:

cobbler import --arch=x86_64 --path=/mnt/cobbler_images --name=CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708task started: 2018-03-28_132623_importtask started (id=Media import, time=Wed Mar 28 13:26:23 2018)Found a candidate signature: breed=redhat, version=rhel6Found a candidate signature: breed=redhat, version=rhel7Found a matching signature: breed=redhat, version=rhel7Adding distros from path /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708-x86_64: ...

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