On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:18:19 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen
<kanarip(a)kanarip.com> wrote:
James Cammarata wrote:
> You can match on the IP/MAC address, can't you? So we could
theoretically
> at least use a custom sif for systems?
>
Under "FILENAME REMAPPING", in in.tftpd's man page:
\i The IP address of the requesting host, in dotted-quad notation
(e.g. 192.0.2.169).
\x The IP address of the requesting host, in hexadecimal notation
(e.g. C00002A9).
This would imply your nodes get reserved DHCP leases which isn't
feasible for most situations (such as multi-subnet setups since host
declarations are global and not subnet specific).
Not true at all, when adding systems to cobbler you can specify the MAC
address (this is used to create the pxe file for Linux). This could be
used for the rewrite rule as well. For instance:
re ^winxp\.sif \x.sif
This might create a problem for profiles that don't have a MAC though...
maybe do one XPLDR for systems and one for profiles (with different file
names used internally, ie. winxp.sif and winxp.sys, then rewrite
winxp.sys...)
> If that's not an option, are we expecting cobbler at this
point to do
> nothing but a vanilla XP/2003 installation?
>
We're not yet expecting cobbler to do anything without the ris-linux
package being reviewed and properly landing in Fedora / EPEL
We'll see where we go from there. It's obviously the Windows part that
is going to require the most work.
What I mean is, what are we _wanting_ cobbler to do at this point? Because
doing a vanilla installation would be feasible, but currently we don't have
any way to customize the install, which is a big feature in cobbler. Using
the rewrite method outlined above, I believe we can add a rewrite rule for
the .sif, which should get around this.
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