The seed almalinux9 kickstart reconstructed the Cobbler contract from memory
and guessed storage: it installed to sda with autopart and keyboard us. The
real Cobbler server (cobbler.main.unkin.net) provisions the OptiPlex fleet from
three model-specific profiles (almalinux9-dell_3050 / _3060 / _7080) that all
install to NVMe with an explicit LVM layout and differ in disk selection, EFI
handling and whether the VG grows. This folds that real content in, keeping one
shared template driven by per-model catalog data.
Changes:
- Make almalinux9.ks.tmpl storage model-aware via .DistroVars.storage_mode:
fixed-nvme (static nvme0n1, BIOS/MBR), auto-nvme (%pre picks the internal
NVMe, UEFI-aware, --boot-drive), with vg_grow to grow the PV; generic/VM
hosts keep the autopart-on-sda path.
- Port the explicit LVM layout (/boot, root, swap, /home, /var/log) and the
%pre NVMe picker + rootvg wipe from the real Cobbler dell templates.
- Add catalog entries optiplex-3050 (fixed-nvme), optiplex-3060 (auto-nvme) and
optiplex-7080 (auto-nvme + vg_grow), selected by a device's provision_template
custom field set to the OptiPlex device_type slug.
- Correct keyboard us -> au and add the kdump addon + kexec-tools/bind-utils to
match the Cobbler profiles.
- Document the per-model variants and selection in catalog/README.md.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015ur3i7D2azsMAWTSVABApv
Initial content for bootapi's git-synced template set: the kickstart and iPXE
templates and the distro catalog (almalinux9, fedora) ported from bootapi's
embedded defaults, plus CI that validates every template/catalog renders for
every distro (bootapi validate) and shellchecks the %post blocks.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015ur3i7D2azsMAWTSVABApv
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