[katello-devel] Provisioning Suggestion

[Bryan Kearney]

On 03/28/2012 09:39 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> | Guys,
>
> | Have been thinking about how to eliminate some of the key-presses in
> | our Satellite kickstart installs and came up with the following
> | (note: I'm not fully up to speed on Foreman provisioning, so don't
> | know if this is already covered):
>
> | I wondered if it would add any useful functionality to be able to
> | create a boot.kernel.org-style image on the Katello server. The
> | resultant image would then boot a system and go direct to the
> | Katello server for instructions. I know it's a basic copy of PXE
> | booting, but it allows this functionality to exist in a few key
> | areas.
>
> So just to be clear, you are talking about a minimal OS boot, which would goto katello for more instructions?
>
> How would you install / use that in the first place? CD, USB etc?
>
> You could use g/ipxe for this, which could hit a url and process scripts (like which kernel to boot).

I have heard folks say they hand carry the iso to the machine being 
installed.

-- bk