[Ovirt-devel] iSCSI questions and VM Creation questions

Wed Aug 5 13:59:14 UTC 2009

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:33 +0200, sylvain.desbureaux at orange-ftgroup.com
wrote:
> >> *	If I choose boot from HD, there's no way to specify another boot parameter (I would like to use a liveCD to install a distro). Is it possible to do that?
> >
> > Hmm, I think what you want to do here is create an ISO image profile in Cobbler for your liveCD and boot from that to install. You will just need to put your ISO in a shared storage volume that the nodes can mount; cobbler will supply the node with the path to the ISO on shared  storage, and it will then boot the VM from there.
> 
> Ok, I'll take a deeper look at cobbler (I've read that it was impossible to do that with cobbler but it was perhaps an old version).

This may be helpful:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd

-j