Integration with another deployment system

[Daniel Segall]

On 8/7/2006, "seth vidal" <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 11:33 -0400, Daniel Segall wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've just switched jobs, and inherited a mess of an atliris express
>> deployment solution. While it works well for windoze installs, I find it
>> to be more trouble than it's worth for linux installs.
>>
>> I'd like to setup another kickstart server here (which I have no
>> problems doing), but I'm not sure how to pass a windoze job to the
>> altiris server from a pxelinux.cfg. Does anyone have any pointers on how
>> to pass a windoze install from a linux kickstart server to a windoze
>> deployment server?
>>
>
>the altiris server here just uses:
>
>
>label altiris
> kernel altiris/linux
> append initrd=altiris/rootfs.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=32768
>vga=extended
>
>
>and it seems to work fine for it from our linux-based pxe/tftp server
>
>-sv
>

Thanks for the quick response Seth. What is actually contained in the
kernel & initrd image? Meaning,... how does the server know where to go? 

Thanks,
-Dan