Non-linux installation

[Jared Hodge]

All,

   Forgive me if this has been addressed recently, I haven't been
monitoring the mailing list very closely.  A few months ago there was
quite a bit of discussion about support for windows XP (via ris-linux)
and other non-linux operating systems (via cloning).  I believe the
decision was made to favor support of cloning over other options.  Has
any progress been made on this front?  I was going to suggest looking at
including "g4l" (ghost for linux - http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/)
as the cloning option.  It seems that this would be very easy to get
working since it supports ftp access to the images and already has a
bootable linux image for the cloning tool itself.  I would think all
that would be needed is an option to load this bootable image though the
current pxe/bootiso options and possibly add some lipstick to have a
clean method of selecting the image to be used or created on the cobbler
server. 

 

Anyway, maybe this discussion has moved to the development mailing list,
but I was just hoping for an update.  Thanks.

-Jared