On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:13:49 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> James Cammarata wrote:
>> Do you know if all of the windows pxe boot files have to be in the root
>> directory of the tftp server? I would like to create subdirectories
> like
>> this:
>>
>> /tftpboot/ris/profiles/$profile_name/startrom.n12 -> /tftpboot/winxp.0
>> /NTLDR -> /tftpboot/XPLDR
>> /winnt.sif
>> /winxp ->
>> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/winxp
>>
>> And then the pxeboot line would be:
>>
>> label winxp
>> kernel ris/profiles/$profile_name/startrom.n12
>>
>> label xpsystem1
>> kernel ris/systems/$system_name/startrom.n12
>>
>
> You can't. startrom will look for a file in the TFTP root; unless you
> rewrite the location with tftpd.rules (or the like), it needs to be in
> the TFTP root.
>
> That said, when going down the rewrite road to have Windows pick up the
> appropriate file(s), it needs to ask for different files to begin with
> or the rewrite will cause it to pick up the same file after all.
You can match on the IP/MAC address, can't you? So we could theoretically
at least use a custom sif for systems?
If that's not an option, are we expecting cobbler at this point to do
nothing but a vanilla XP/2003 installation?
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