Hi I've been playing arround with http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ That proyect contains some files, between them, a kernel and a initrd which contain a small linux system which mounts via samba a ntinstall/install resource as drive Z: on DOSEMU/Non Linux and as /z on Linux from where it gets the whole files it needs (perl, etc) as well as automatization scripts. After having all information ready (asks for partitioning, formatting, profile, etc) it just launches a "dosemu" session which does the non-linux install part (the one where it get files from network share), which, indeed, is the "problematic one", as on normal systems, you'll require network drivers, etc which usually linux has incorporated. After first copy-and-install part, system reboots, installs operating system, and at the end starts again mounting samba share and continues doing the post-installation. Integration with cobbler could be: - cobbler check information regarding the share for samba pointing to standard folder for cobbler "import"'s (this utility want's OS in "os/" of the mount point - Profile with referenced kernel and initrd for starting the "unattended" system - Unattended profile creation from defined kickstart dunno what's the schema for Debian/SuSE profiles, as I did no tested this, so that may not differ so much. This could enable multi-os installations as previously said on this list: - First start kickstart for partitioning (/boot, vfat, and LVM) - Change profile to Non-Linux installer - Install Non-Linux on vfat just formatting contents - Trigger change profile to Linux installer - Install linux on the /boot and LVM and install bootloader just ormatting contents At the end you will have one system with multiboot and two profiles for Linux and Non-linux that will just install on available partition (some kind of partitioning test will be nice to check if partition schema does not contain required partition, and then, change Profile to partitioning one and return back to this (¿cobbler feature for "toggling profile***"?) �as anyone played with this? Regards Pablo PD: The point in using a dosemu system to install another os could open the door to manage the installation of any other OS with DOS-based installer, or even more complex installations based on specific virtual machines/emulators that just prepare hard drive for other-os installer ***: Flip your current profile to another one, then change it back to that profile when final cobbler step is done. _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
