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?
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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