Al Tobey wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> Anybody had any exposure to this? >> http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ > > I actually wrote the web interface for Cobbler, so I'm a bit biased ;) > > It's a very nice tool that's getting better all the time. The lead > developer is easily accessible on Freenode IRC in #cobbler. It's > being used all over the place, even here in San Diego for various > server farms. > > Personally, I have it set up to pretty much be able to install any of > (CentOS|RHEL|Fedora|Redhat) (\d+\.?\d*) over PXE in just a few > minutes. It works best with Redhat derivatives right now, but people > have it working for SuSE, Debian, NetBSD, and even Windows. The jist > of it is, it takes all of the fiddly bits about setting up and > managing a PXE/kickstart/distribution/update system and ties it all up > into a neat package. A lot of sysadmins, me included, have said > about it: "I've been thinking about writing something like that for > years but haven't had the time or motivation." > > The client companion, koan, has a neat ability to "replace-self" where > it'll generate a custom initrd that boots straight into the OS > installer for reinstalls/upgrades. There's also experimental support > for generating livecd's for kickstart installations in the git tree. > > There's a nice tutorial by the author at: > http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/10/cobbler-how-to-set-up-a-network-boot-server-in-10-minutes/ > > If you have any questions about it, let me know or jump on the IRC channel.
Thanks. Hey Al- did you have anything to do with the webpage. That's the first/only black-background theme I remember seeing that I didn!t dislike. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
