Well, not quite.
Jeremy Katz has figured out the proper magic-foo we need to change to the grubby invocation, so we can now use the koan live CD once again with some minor tweaks, coming shortly.
The koan live CD is nice because it (A) autodiscovers systems, acting as a PXE simultator, (B) unlike "cobbler buildiso" output you never ever have to reburn it.
It doesn't offer support for asking what profile you want to install (yet) if the system isn't defined in Cobbler ... like a proper PXE simulator, but I see that as being pretty easy to add.
Look for this to be coming back soon. Buildiso support is useful and works on all hardware, where the live CD always may not, so it's staying around too.
--Michael
Very cool!
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Michael DeHaan mdehaan@redhat.com wrote:
Well, not quite.
Jeremy Katz has figured out the proper magic-foo we need to change to the grubby invocation, so we can now use the koan live CD once again with some minor tweaks, coming shortly.
The koan live CD is nice because it (A) autodiscovers systems, acting as a PXE simultator, (B) unlike "cobbler buildiso" output you never ever have to reburn it.
It doesn't offer support for asking what profile you want to install (yet) if the system isn't defined in Cobbler ... like a proper PXE simulator, but I see that as being pretty easy to add.
Look for this to be coming back soon. Buildiso support is useful and works on all hardware, where the live CD always may not, so it's staying around too.
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Christopher Johnston wrote:
Very cool!
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@redhat.com mailto:mdehaan@redhat.com> wrote:
Well, not quite. Jeremy Katz has figured out the proper magic-foo we need to change to the grubby invocation, so we can now use the koan live CD once again with some minor tweaks, coming shortly. The koan live CD is nice because it (A) autodiscovers systems, acting as a PXE simultator, (B) unlike "cobbler buildiso" output you never ever have to reburn it. It doesn't offer support for asking what profile you want to install (yet) if the system isn't defined in Cobbler ... like a proper PXE simulator, but I see that as being pretty easy to add. Look for this to be coming back soon. Buildiso support is useful and works on all hardware, where the live CD always may not, so it's staying around too. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler-devel mailing list cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org <mailto:cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel
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Still in progress, but I've also added an interactive mode -- if discovery fails it will show a basic list of the available profiles and allow someone to type in what they want to install (assuming the live cd was not built with an explicit profile coded into it, i.e. --koan="--profile=foo").
--Michael
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