My use case is probably slightly different; I want to be able to define systems by MAC address, but have a single automated ISO (we can then use to build all our boxes).
Live CD is probably overkill for my needs - I'm hoping to get away with pxelinux.0 on the ISO, with a hardcoded path to the (cobbler) TFTP box. The pxelinux.cfg/<macaddr> mechanism should take care of the rest, right? On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Needless to say, 'cobbler buildiso' is helping a lot, but I only seem >> to be able to >> point a machine to a system definition by creating a custom ISO. >> >> Is there a way to present the booting hosts with the menu they'd get >> over TFTP? The machines under fairly heavy development and so we're building >> an ISO each time we add a profile at the moment. >> > > cobbler buildiso produces the same menu. To do it dynamically requires > investing some more work in the Fedora-liveCD based "Cobber live CD" > which I was working on a few > weeks ago. There is some black magic that needs to be done to make it > interactive though. This is something I want to do but is on the back > burner for a while. If someone would > like to have a go at it, I did add the code to koan to allow prompting > for the live CD case -- the trick though is tweaking the actual live CD > config to make it visable versus > just showing the login prompt, etc. > >> Ideally I'd like some way to get the booting servers to the TFTP >> server, then let >> the usual cobbler mechanisms take place (per-system settings etc. >> pulled by MAC address). >> > > FWIW, The live CD does this, but all over HTTP, it doesn't need TFTP. >> Thanks! >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
