----- Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Dan White <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good to see you on the list, Michael. I thought you had moved on. > > So it looks like the current buildiso will not give me what I am asking for. > > Dang. > > Yes, though I want to help out here some. > > > > > I was hoping for a standalone loader that I could customize to the system > > level. > > This is because the DHCP in the environment I am in is run by the Microsoft > > Side of the House and I have not been able to get consistent behavior from > > the first part of the Cobbler net-boot process. > > > > Reference: > > https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2011-November/006889.html > > > > Is buildiso.py self-contained ? I would be willing to take a shot at > > getting it to do what I want. > > Seems like a good feature to contribute for me to the stew. > > If you only have the captive DHCP scenario, you don't need the > standalone. As Jörgen says below, the standalone mode is intended > for network-less environments. Imagine you have two environments at > your work -- one is full on PXE, another is a heavily locked down lab > with no outside networking and can't see the cobbler server. This > allows you to provision inside that second network (or on something > without a network at all). It's still fully automatic, but it puts > the kickstart onto the ISO with the distribution tree. > > If you only need to avoid DHCP, the default buildiso mode just puts > the menu on the CD, but the install trees and kickstarts are still > contained on your cobbler server. This allows you to modify the > kickstarts without reburning the CD, but you would want to reburn the > CD to change kernel options or add distros/profiles. However, if > you're lucky, you could also just get the Microsoft side of the house > to set the "next-server" parameter for your DHCP by MAC/subnet/etc to > point at the Cobbler server -- assuming they can do that.
Sadly, it is uglier that that. They will not configure the development lab sub-net to default PXE-boot from my server. I have to use individual DHCP reservations. And they cannot/will-not do them consistently/properly. I have resorted to the ISO workflow to end a multi-day personal productivity blockage. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
