Michael DeHaan wrote: > Perry mentioned this > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89&DisplayLang=en > > as a way to "kickstart" Windows guests that works better across > different releases of Windows than the unattended.txt files. > > Would someone mind taking a look at this and seeing what the reality of > installation is to modify an ISO image to make it "fully automatically > installable"? If it is possible for a user to generate an ISO and we > have instructions for using it with "cobbler image add" I think this > feature is set. > > However, if this requires a extra server or something, we have more work > to do -- such as figuring out how to talk to it over the network. In > that scenario, looking at more direct integration with the > unattended.net stuff may be a better route. I'm willing to do this but > would prefer if we can just treat it as any other OS image. That may > not be the case. > > --Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
I've been having the 'pleasure' of redoing our Windows provisioning this summer and have been experimenting with the MS Dev Toolkit (MDT, aforementioned link). The images it generates are actually WinPE images (basically vista live, from my understanding) and they can be configured to be a single monolithic image and/or require and download from a windows (and, theoretically, samba) server. After using MDT to generate the images, serving them out via cobbler should be simple enough. In theory, MDT should be able to create an entirely automated installation, though I haven't been able to quite figure everything out, yet. (And, while MDT includes a plethora of documentation, it's in MS's usual style of selling you a process, not telling you how things work. /rant) Ben (back from a lovely vacation) _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
