On 10/22/2014 11:00 AM, Eduardo Bacchi Kienetz wrote:
On 10/22/2014 10:53 AM, Alan Evangelista wrote:
On 10/21/2014 11:55 PM, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, Alan Evangelista
<ala...@linux.vnet.ibm.com <mailto:ala...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>> wrote:
Cobbler is a Linux installation server, based on Linux boot
loaders, Linux initrd/kernel
and Linux automated installation processes. Why is there a Windows
breed? How would someone
use this to install a Windows system? imho this should be deleted.
Both the Windows PE stuff and SCCM make it pretty painless to
install windows entirely hands off ala kickstart. Cobbler is just
really a smarter PXE / tftp server so if the feature works (that is
a big if!) seems reasonable to not rip out.
I think Windows automated installation does *not* work in Cobbler
because I do not see any windows
special handling in code, only the windows breed. I do not event know
how to test this. What would I use
as kernel/initrd/kernel command line arguments/automatic installation
file?
Windows PE does not need special handling as far as I remember (from
years ago). Only way to make sure is to try today, but I certainly
wouldn't remove for not knowing how it works...
I think I was misinterpreted. The reason to delete is not because I dont
know how to use it,
but that nobody is using it. I'm against keeping a unused feature just
because maybe it could
be useful in the future. I prefer to have a small set of features which
are well maintained than
a big set of broken features.
Also, there is no Windows installation feature supported here, either
automated or manual,
there is only a breed name. Whatever user does with this windows breed,
he/she could do
equally with the unix breed.
Regards,
Alan Evangelista
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