Hi All, I was also looking at doing similar when Janet brought it up earlier last year, but in my investigation, it seems that Windows install systems (system center etc) really want to use the UUID from the mainboard to track it's installation, with the mac as a secondary less reliable key. (there are some uuid's that are also blacklisted)
What would people think about having cobbler store the system uuid (via dmidecode) as well as the mac addresses? Generally pxe systems will also allow you to use that as the first file via tftp, and then fall back to mac-address, and the subnet scope methods we currently use. My day-to-day environment doesn't have enough Windows to require automation, but I'd be interested in collaborating with anyone interested in attempting to drag windows support (vista and later) systems into cobbler. James On 2012-01-12, at 3:01 PM, Richard Siddall wrote: > 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. > > James said he's deploying Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows 7. These both > use Windows Deployment Services > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Deployment_Services), which replaced > RIS. > > Richard. > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
