Hi, I'm trying to make an unattended installer that takes a file with something like:
macaddress|osversion|ipaddress|admin username|password
It should be able to install an OS (based on osversion - say redhat, debian,freebsd or Windows) based on the MAC address that it uses to get an OS with.
for RedHat, its easy. I can just make a mapping between macaddress and ipaddress in dhcpd.conf, and have it load a PXELinux.cfg file that has something like:
LABEL linux KERNEL pxeboot.linux/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=pxeboot.linux/initrd.img ks=http:192.168.167.254/pxe.php ksdevice=eth0
and I can write a PHP page that'll parse the above file, and generate a kickstart config with the appropriate ip and password. However, I've no idea how to approach this with windows. Can someone recommend how I change the unattended installer to use a different IP or username, based on it's mac address ?
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In response to your question, you can use the unattend.csv file to have unattended do different things, based on an inheriting hiearchy. You can probably extend this to meet your needs.
I use netsh to set the IP addresses statically for my lab machines (they can dhcp on the mgmt NIC, but the test NIC needs to have its IP set statically).
Jordan
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