I'm interested in learning Cobbler internals more.  I'm happy to help with development of this feature.  I am not a Windows admin.  Is there someone who's more familiar with the windows components that would be willing to work with me?

Thanks

-- Jess

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Alan Evangelista <alanoe@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
On 11/10/2014 01:18 PM, Alan Evangelista wrote:
On 10/24/2014 03:27 PM, Jörgen Maas wrote:
A user contributed this: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Microsoft%20systems%20center


Thank you, Jörgen. According to docs, the steps are extract some PXE related files from SSCM boot media,
copy them to Cobbler server and setup xinet conf file and boot loader conf file. Note that doc suggests that
pxedefault.template should be updated manually, so this would break Linux installations on the same Cobbler
server. Also, adding a distro and cobbler sync currently requires that each distro has an initrd value, which is
not set here. Thus, there is no "Windows installation" feature; doc above simply teachs how to hack Cobbler
and reuse its automatic DHCP/boot loader conf file generation to support Windows installation.

imho either "windows" should be removed from breed list or Windows installation should be correctly supported
in Cobbler. This means (1) allowing creation/sync'ing of a distro without initrd, (2) add a Windows SSCM boot
loader conf file template, (3) make tftpgen.py use this template when windows breed is selected, (4) improve
documentation about Windows installation.

I have created this issue: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1342

I suggest we delete windows breed until this is properly implemented, as it does
not affect Windows installation.



Regards,
Alan Evangelista

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