RIS integration in Cobbler never really happened for various reasons, in 
particular it seemed Microsoft was moving away from it and (Windows) distro 
support was inconsistent.


On Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Will McDonald wrote:

> 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] 
> (mailto:[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] 
> > (mailto:[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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