I'll take a look at it. I think the largest issue is going to be my lack of python skills. Where in the code should I start? This is going to be more of an issue for me soon because I just got my ks file as perfect as I can until some bugs are fixed on code outside my control. I was told to make the testing 'caveman simple' so 'plug in the cd' seems simple. Aaron On 6/15/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Aaron Lippold wrote: > Hello, > > Is anyone working on the cobbler buildcd profile=x for 0.5.0? I know > that was talked about and if I can help then I'd like to. > > Aaron Not yet that I'm aware of. I still think this would be great and you're welcome to start something. Possibly some way to integrate with Revisor (though I'm not sure Revisor will be able to deal with RHEL4/5)? See http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/ On a related subject -- I did know of one person looking at making a CD that would allow syslinux type PXE behavior without the need for DHCP blessed next-server, but that effort has apparently stalled. I still think this would be great -- just build a CD image with a hard-coded value for the location of the TFTP server ("cobbler build-netboot-cd"), which would have the machine go out and PXE itself without the need for PXE BIOS or a DHCP next-server entry. For instance, if your company had a PXE server on your network you didn't like, usage of this CD would allow you to install baremetal (using full PXE menus) from your own internal cobbler server. If no one else picks this up, I'll take a look at it somewhere down the pipe. I see there are existing floppy disk images that do this with the DHCP portion (for NICs that can't netboot), so all that seems required is hacking the DHCP parts out and allowing a config file (or equivalent) to specify the /tftpboot server -- so if you're sitting in your lab and office, you can network install off of an arbitrary cobbler server from bare metal without having to have the Cobbler server be blessed by DHCP. This wouldn't even have to be something Cobbler specific but would be insanely useful. The non-network install CD/DVD thing is useful too. --Michael _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
