Chris O'Regan wrote: > We have some systems that can only be updated by floppy disk. It is > possible to boot these images via PXE using memdisk and this works quite > well. I would like to add these images to Cobbler so that we have one > mechanism for maintaining PXE. Any pointers? > > > Thanks, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > Sure.
Make a directory called /tftpboot/memdisk (so Cobbler won't bother it -- it will definitely want to rewrite /tftpboot/images), copy files there, and then edit /etc/cobbler/pxedefault.template to add in the PXE entries right after "$pxe_menu_items". This will allow those images to be accessed via the PXE boot menu. Currently it's not possible to use the new "cobbler image add" support to make a system boot directly to an image like this, though this is something I want to explore. In this way, it would be possible to have a army of systems set to PXE boot to their local disks (--netboot-enabled=0) and then temporarily assign them to the update image (cobbler system add --name=default --image=foo). This way you wouldn't have to manually deal with each system. If that sounds interesting, that's coming up shortly. Until then, adding new content to the pxe template is fairly straightforward. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
