Peter Wright wrote:
Jack Neely wrote:
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?
Jack
Can't speak about Windows or MacOS platforms - but I've done a little
investigating in using cobbler to assist with booting/building FreeBSD
systems and theoretically it should work. Granted I have not looked
at what patches would be need to make this happen - but the underlying
mechanics are there (you can feed a response file similar to kickstart
to Freebsd, pxe booting works very will with freebsd etc.).
at this point this is one of the things on my ever growing "would be
nice to get done soon" list :)
-pete
I'm extremely interested in those kinds of things (both koan doing DBAN
and the other OS support). Given I'm not an expert in deploying
non-Linux OS's, I won't be adding these myself (I may be able to test
some) ... but if someone wants to add patches for *BSD or even Windows,
I'll gladly take them. Mixed environments are a reality, and
especially once we have Xen PXE integrated into Cobbler (which is
already available in F8), it would be nice to be able to deploy those
OS's in hardware virtualization with koan, with just a single
command. There's already a parameter in Cobbler to identify a distro
as foreign, it's "--breed" and we do some things already to deal with
Debian and SuSE kernel parameters. Since kickstarts are treated as
generic answer files -- text -- (except by koan, which needs to learn to
/not/ read them once again), there's nothing really keying in Cobbler to
just kickstart-based deployments. However, it's always going to do
those best :)
BTW, here's an example of how someone added DBAN as a Cobbler profile
for PXE (not just added into the template file), though koan would
probably need some tweaking to tolerate it. Might be a useful starting
point:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/cobbler/wiki/SystemRetirement
--Michael
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