[et-mgmt-tools] booting utility cds via cobbler and PXE

[Michael DeHaan]

Corey Osman wrote:
> It would be nice to boot utility CDs via cobbler and PXE. A few of 
> these come to mind.
>
>
> - hp firmware cds
> - hp smartstart
> - UBCD
> - knoppix live
> ...
>
>
Linux rescue CD's are pretty easy -- just take the kernel/initrd from 
them and do a "cobbler distro add" on them, and make sure the tree is 
available on the network. These basically prompt for where the tree is, 
so I'm not sure if you can feed them a kickstart to get them to ignore 
that prompt. Someone else probably knows :)

Knoppix can be made to work through similar means so it would be 
possible to make Cobbler like it.
I googled and found this: 
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=100977

Not sure about the HP Stuff. You might want to ask HP if it's possible 
to PXE boot that -- if it is, it would work with Cobbler. It may 
possibly require a weird "--kopts".

If you get all this working, it would make an excellent article for the 
Cobbler Wiki. If you don't have a Fedora account yet, they are easy to 
get at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts -- you'll need that to 
log in and add pages.

Hope that helps!

--Michael