Re: [cobbler] ESXi5 system builds via cobbler

[Jörgen Maas]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:54 PM, <Eddie.Velez(a)emulex.com&gt; wrote:

>   I am working with our development lab to install ESXi5 on system
> via
>  cobbler. ESXi4 and ESXi5 are different in the they boot I have modified
>  /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/pxegen.py to handle this and
>  created templates to make sure correct boot options are inserted to tftp
>  boot file. The problem I am facing is coping all necessary files into
>  /tftpboot/images directory and make sure they don’t get deleted next time I
>  do a cobbler sync. Can some please point me to which file I have to modify
>  to copy data to directory. ** **
>
>  
The distro object has the boot_files field (from item_distro.py)

[ "boot_files",{},0,"TFTP Boot Files",True,"Files copied into
tftpboot
beyond the kernel/initrd",0,"list"],


You should be able to use just that without any modifications

-- 
Grtz,
Jörgen Maas