this sounds alot like flar archives for use in jumpstart. It's been a while since I've messed with solaris (thank god!) but jumpstart with flar archives used to work really well.
Cheers, Harry David Mackintosh wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:02:36PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote: > >> Comments? Questions? > > Well I agree with the previous commenter, who considered it complicated. > > What I've done for one of my customer's imaging needs is to create an > image of a system using tar (which isn't perfect, I know) plus the > partitioning information. I would then load a special cobbler > profile which involved a "stub" OS image, which contained a script to > run at boot which would find the stored image, tar it onto the disk, > fix up the grub so that it booted the correct partitions in the right > way, and then rebooted. > > This was limited to restoring images that were previously taken from > the same system due to what could be charitably called a wide variety > of hardware, but I don't doubt that someone clever could make the > post-install (or firstboot) more flexible to make it deal with different > hardware. > > I always thought that a better way to do it would be to put all that > into a specially crafted %PRE script and not bother with the stub, > but never found the time to get it done myself. And since we have an > already working PXE-based installer environment, why bother with the > LiveCD? > > I implemented a variation of this for my Sun Solaris systems -- a > special Jumpstart profile which instead of running the installer > would partition the disk and install a (ufsdump-sourced) image and > made the disk bootable; Solaris' built-in flexibility and relative > hardware homogenity made this easier to make work across different > machine types. > > All that said, I am perhaps not the target for cobbler; the > increasing power of cobbler et al is far beyond my needs, as I've not > really changed how I've been doing things since 0.3.3 when I started > using it. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
