You might also want to have a look into RIS for Linux which would allow you
to have a single host for both your RHEL-like and Windows requirements.

http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux.php
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/ris-linux.html
http://michaeldehaan.net/2009/01/22/cobbler-update-busy-is-good-installation-as-a-service/

Will.

On 12 January 2012 22:27, Will McDonald <[email protected]> wrote:

> Windows automated installs are handled by RIS.
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742378.aspx
>
> If you could do per-profile or per-system next-server (I don't know if
> Cobber) then perhaps you could switch individual profiles/systems to point
> to either your Cobbler host or an appropriately configured RIS host as
> desired.
>
> This is something I've had on my to-do list for a while but never really
> got round to playing with.
>
> Will.
>
>
> On 12 January 2012 21:21, McEvoy, James <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Has anyone found a way to configure test clients in cobbler so they PXE
>> boot to either Linux or Windows.  I have a rack of 39 servers that I want
>> to switch between RHEL, CentOS and Windows (2008R2 and Win7)  Right now
>> they boot to RHEL and CentOS is no problem but I do not know how to get
>> Windows to install…  Does Microsoft have a boot server I can configure in a
>> cobbler profile?****
>>
>>   --jim****
>>
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