[et-mgmt-tools] multi-os howto?

[Dhawal Doshy]

Top posting, oops, and i just read the other thread.. "Cobbler idea: PXE 
boot profile menu".

What we do is more/less detailed here if you want a link:
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_pxe_install_server

- dhawal

Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> Hello Michael and List,
> 
> i recently started testing cobbler for my setup and quite like the ease
> of provisioning.
> 
> Here is what i have done so far..
> cobbler distro add --name=rhel4 --kernel=/path/to/vmlinuz
> --initrd=/path/to/initrd.img
> 
> cobbler profile add --name=rhel4_ni --distro=rhel4
> --kickstart=http://192.168.1.5/ks.cfg
> 
> cobbler profile add --name=rhel4_interactive --distro=rhel4
> --kickstart=http://192.168.1.5/ks_custom_part.cfg
> ....
> ....
> same for centos
> 
> However each of these creates a /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/distro and not
> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. In the production setup i have the
> 'default' file being updated manually with different labels to support
> multiple OSes.. and a Display file to present the options at the boot:
> prompt.
> 
> My question is how do it do this using cobbler?
> 
> - dhawal