James Cammarata wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:18:19 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> James Cammarata wrote: >> >>> You can match on the IP/MAC address, can't you? So we could >>> >> theoretically >> >>> at least use a custom sif for systems? >>> >>> >> Under "FILENAME REMAPPING", in in.tftpd's man page: >> >> \i The IP address of the requesting host, in dotted-quad notation >> (e.g. 192.0.2.169). >> >> \x The IP address of the requesting host, in hexadecimal notation >> (e.g. C00002A9). >> >> This would imply your nodes get reserved DHCP leases which isn't >> feasible for most situations (such as multi-subnet setups since host >> declarations are global and not subnet specific). >> > > > Not true at all, when adding systems to cobbler you can specify the MAC > address (this is used to create the pxe file for Linux). This could be > used for the rewrite rule as well. For instance: > > re ^winxp\.sif \x.sif > > This might create a problem for profiles that don't have a MAC though... > maybe do one XPLDR for systems and one for profiles (with different file > names used internally, ie. winxp.sif and winxp.sys, then rewrite > winxp.sys...) > > > >>> If that's not an option, are we expecting cobbler at this point to do >>> nothing but a vanilla XP/2003 installation? >>> >>> >> We're not yet expecting cobbler to do anything without the ris-linux >> package being reviewed and properly landing in Fedora / EPEL >> >> We'll see where we go from there. It's obviously the Windows part that >> is going to require the most work. >> > > > What I mean is, what are we _wanting_ cobbler to do at this point? Because > doing a vanilla installation would be feasible, but currently we don't have > any way to customize the install, which is a big feature in cobbler. Using > the rewrite method outlined above, I believe we can add a rewrite rule for > the .sif, which should get around this. > > >
Ideally if we can point it at answer files the user can tweak and replace using --kickstart=(windows file thingy), that seems ideal. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
