[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler idea: PXE boot profile menu

[Matt S Unix Administrator]

James Fidell wrote:
> David Mackintosh wrote:
>   
>> I was about to write some wrappers to do this, but it occurs to me that
>> it might be easier to do inside cobbler itself.
>>
>> How about instead of just having pxelinux.cfg/default kick straight into
>> a hard disk boot (which is a nice, safe default) it pops up a list of the
>> profiles it knows about, and will accept those names at the prompt?
>>     
>
> FWIW, I've used a system like this with one hosting company.  Their PXE
> boot takes you into a menu that allows you to do a network-based
> installation of various Linux or *BSD distributions.  It's quite cool.
>
> James
>
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I work for a hosting company and we employ pxe/cobbler in that way. Most
of our installs are one time and sparse in frequency.