Darren J Moffat wrote: ... > > Personally I don't feel as if this case is anywhere near complete > architecturally since it seems clear to me that it hasn't considered > existing things like WANboot. >
I am very much in support of providing iSCSI boot support, but I concur with Darren here. The case makes a number of references to solving limitations in later phases, but I'm unaware of any of the plans for those later phases; there has been no coordination with my team in regard to how the various network installation options will be rationalized and managed. Our experience with WANboot/install should make us very leery of a first phase that relies on a great deal of manual labor on the administrator's part (and I note that the materials here are fairly vague on what those steps are) to set up complex network boot environments; the implied lack of Jumpstart support is especially troubling to me, since the profiles for iSCSI customers and Jumpstart customers seems to me to match nearly perfectly. It's 5 years on since the WANboot cases, after all, and we're still some time away from working on resolving the problems there. Dave
