I'm interested in learning Cobbler internals more. I'm happy to help with development of this feature. I am not a Windows admin. Is there someone who's more familiar with the windows components that would be willing to work with me?
Thanks -- Jess On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Alan Evangelista <ala...@linux.vnet.ibm.com > wrote: > On 11/10/2014 01:18 PM, Alan Evangelista wrote: > >> On 10/24/2014 03:27 PM, Jörgen Maas wrote: >> >>> A user contributed this: https://github.com/cobbler/ >>> cobbler/wiki/Microsoft%20systems%20center >>> >>> >> Thank you, Jörgen. According to docs, the steps are extract some PXE >> related files from SSCM boot media, >> copy them to Cobbler server and setup xinet conf file and boot loader >> conf file. Note that doc suggests that >> pxedefault.template should be updated manually, so this would break Linux >> installations on the same Cobbler >> server. Also, adding a distro and cobbler sync currently requires that >> each distro has an initrd value, which is >> not set here. Thus, there is no "Windows installation" feature; doc above >> simply teachs how to hack Cobbler >> and reuse its automatic DHCP/boot loader conf file generation to support >> Windows installation. >> >> imho either "windows" should be removed from breed list or Windows >> installation should be correctly supported >> in Cobbler. This means (1) allowing creation/sync'ing of a distro without >> initrd, (2) add a Windows SSCM boot >> loader conf file template, (3) make tftpgen.py use this template when >> windows breed is selected, (4) improve >> documentation about Windows installation. >> > > I have created this issue: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1342 > > I suggest we delete windows breed until this is properly implemented, as > it does > not affect Windows installation. > > > > Regards, > Alan Evangelista > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler-devel mailing list > cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel >
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