Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How difficult would it be to modify the new Linux boot disk to allow > installation of Linux as well as Windows? Could we integrate it > with RedHat's Kickstart or Debian's FAI?
Booting a diskless Linux and installing Linux are very different things. Each Linux distribution has its own boot disk, which you really want to use. But this is not a problem. I do not know about FAI, but RedHat's Kickstart can be invoked from a PXE boot. RedHat already ships images for this; look under images/pxeboot in any modern RedHat distribution. All you need to do is merge the PXELINUX configurations and dispatch at the boot loader screen. This is what I do at work. I have a manually-created /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file which offers a menu of operating systems to install. Right now it offers RedHat 8, RedHat 9, Unattended (DOS), and Unattended (Linux). Adapting it to use ISOLINUX instead of PXELINUX would be very easy. RedHat's boot.iso (also under images/ in the RedHat distro) already uses ISOLINUX, just like Unattended. So you just need to merge the directories and isolinux.cfg files, re-create the ISO image using isolinux.bin as the boot loader, and burn the new CD. Let me know if you want more details. > For that matter, would it make sense to spin this boot disk off as a > separate project to bootstrap various OS automated installations? I have thought about this, not so much for installing other OSes, but because it is a pretty good "rescue" disk. But there are already lots of those out there... - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
