[et-mgmt-tools] Revisor / Cobbler and Revisor for CentOS5/RHEL5
Jim Wildman
jim at rossberry.com
Tue Jul 3 22:12:46 UTC 2007
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Just as an update, I was talking with Jereon van Meeuwen and Jonathan Steffan
> on #cobbler yesterday, and we bounced around a few ideas.
>
> One idea is a LiveCD that invokes koan. This would allow for PXEing in
> environments that have a cobbler server, but can't have a PXE server. They
> have an early test build, though it has some trouble detecting hard drives
> (apparently due to something with libata). As this also could be
> accomplished with a hacked up syslinux PXE boot image and a standard
> /tftpboot tree, there may be other ways to accomplish this worth exploring.
>
> Another idea is importing a cobbler profile and making a (non-networked)
> installable Live CD out of it -- pulling the needed packages from the various
> local cobbler repos onto the CD.
>
This would be extremely useful to us. +100 :-)
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