Dick Davies wrote:
My use case is probably slightly different; I want to be able to
define
systems by MAC address, but have a single automated ISO
(we can then use to build all our boxes).
Live CD is probably overkill for my needs - I'm hoping to get away with
pxelinux.0 on the ISO, with a hardcoded path to the (cobbler) TFTP box.
The pxelinux.cfg/<macaddr> mechanism should take care of the rest, right?
So basically you want a CD that fires up pxelinux.0 to a next-server
address that does not originate from DHCP.
Not sure you can do this without hacking up pxelinux source.
(The Live CD is not any more overkill than what you propose above, and
does so without needing TFTP. Again though, we're not finished
resurrecting it.)
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Michael DeHaan
<mdehaan(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> Needless to say, 'cobbler buildiso' is helping a lot, but I only seem
>> to be able to
>> point a machine to a system definition by creating a custom ISO.
>>
>> Is there a way to present the booting hosts with the menu they'd get
>> over TFTP? The machines under fairly heavy development and so we're building
>> an ISO each time we add a profile at the moment.
>>
>>
> cobbler buildiso produces the same menu. To do it dynamically requires
> investing some more work in the Fedora-liveCD based "Cobber live CD"
> which I was working on a few
> weeks ago. There is some black magic that needs to be done to make it
> interactive though. This is something I want to do but is on the back
> burner for a while. If someone would
> like to have a go at it, I did add the code to koan to allow prompting
> for the live CD case -- the trick though is tweaking the actual live CD
> config to make it visable versus
> just showing the login prompt, etc.
>
>
>> Ideally I'd like some way to get the booting servers to the TFTP
>> server, then let
>> the usual cobbler mechanisms take place (per-system settings etc.
>> pulled by MAC address).
>>
>>
> FWIW, The live CD does this, but all over HTTP, it doesn't need TFTP.
>
>> Thanks!
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