Dale Reagan wrote: > Hi Glenn, > > At 01:56 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote: > >> Now I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I thought I'd throw it out >> there. Basically, having submenus within the PXE boot menu. An example >> would be the following: >> >> CentOS >> - CentOS 4 >> - i386 >> - Web build >> - App build >> - Dev build >> - x86_64 >> - CentOS 5 >> - i386 >> - x86_64 >> - etc >> >> My build process does not include MAC addresses, so we basically have to >> select the OS then I'll >> have some post scripts to pull the chassis serial # for configuration info >> > >from a config database. > > Is the need simply for manual PXE boot options? If my brain cells are > working correctly (it's been several months since I worked with this) you > can build your own custom/template PXE menu (just don't let Cobbler tinker > with it...) >
The idea is to make cobbler be able to generate hierachial menus natively, so folks don't have to figure out how to. That's the principle of having cobbler be an abstraction layer on all of these installation related tasks, so the application can hold all the institutional knowledge and no legwork is required to get such things going :) > If I understand then: > - you build a generic OS install > - you fetch serial #s and then > - customize install during post-kickstart processing? > > Is it faster to build your serial number list than to build a list of MAC > addresses? > Do you manually build your system list? or is everything auto-magic? (i.e. > everything is 'discovered' during PXE boot) > > I don't think he's talking about system entries here, but rather making hierarchial menus for cobbler profiles, which appear today just alphabetically sorted by name without any multiple levels of menus, which could be long if you have 100 profiles. Still, it does scroll fast. I still think it would be neat to do something to automate this, and it would not be highly complicated. > :) > Dale > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
