List, I want to be able to automatically configure bios settings and raid settings and whatever else I can configure as part of a pre-provisioning process. I'm pretty sure the Dell Deployment toolkit is the right set of tools. The things is I don't want to have to install them and have them on the systems. I just want to have an automatically configured bios, raid, whatever else but I want to use Cobbler's builtin conifg management (https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/BuiltinConfigManagement) to render templated bios config files. Does Dell provide or could they provide a bootable iso that can be made into a pxe image to configure the bios. I want to pxe into an image, configure the bios and then reboot and install the os using Cobbler. I don't want to have to use open manage or have dell tools left on the systems following the install.
They have some docs on how to pxe boot any live cd on the Cobbler web site. https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd I talked to some Dell guys on IRC and one of them had actually built a similar setup for himself at one point. Does anyone on the list have a setup like this? Thanks, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
