On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:09:55PM -0400, Jack Neely enlightened us: > Folks, > > One of my goals at NCSU has been to create a boot service that can > handle all Intel-ish machines. I have that running now and am looking > at using Cobbler as the glue to pull all the various parts together and > to take advantage of koan. > > What thought has been given to non-Linux distributions? We install > windows with linux but cobbler's mandated usage of ks=foo and other > things on the append line don't make since here. What about other > utilities such as memtest or dban? > > Perhaps a different breed option to alter the feature set? > memtest and dban I just put into the pxe template file as individual entries. I have a windows installation system that is kicked off from a linux boot disk that I could pxe boot, but I think the same thing could be done - just an entry in the pxe template. If I could get the machine definitions to live inside cobbler too, that'd be nice, but there's quite a bit of info that I'm not sure would shoehorn very well. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
