Re: Integration with another deployment system

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 11:42 -0400, Daniel Segall wrote:
> On 8/7/2006, "seth vidal" <skvidal linux duke edu> wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 11:33 -0400, Daniel Segall wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I've just switched jobs, and inherited a mess of an atliris express
> >> deployment solution. While it works well for windoze installs, I find it
> >> to be more trouble than it's worth for linux installs.
> >>
> >> I'd like to setup another kickstart server here (which I have no
> >> problems doing), but I'm not sure how to pass a windoze job to the
> >> altiris server from a pxelinux.cfg. Does anyone have any pointers on how
> >> to pass a windoze install from a linux kickstart server to a windoze
> >> deployment server?
> >>
> >
> >the altiris server here just uses:
> >
> >
> >label altiris
> > kernel altiris/linux
> > append initrd=altiris/rootfs.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=32768
> >vga=extended
> >
> >
> >and it seems to work fine for it from our linux-based pxe/tftp server
> >
> >-sv
> >
> 
> Thanks for the quick response Seth. What is actually contained in the
> kernel & initrd image? Meaning,... how does the server know where to go? 
> 

it's the kernel and initrd that we pulled off of the altiris server
running the intel pxe server.

We just copied them over to our other pxe server.

-sv