On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Glenn Bailey<gbailey(a)terremark.com> wrote:
> > - WinPE boot iso import
> >
> > Would be used in mixed environments to allow PXE booting of the WinPE
> > boot image to use the actual M$ provisioning system. Would not handle
> > any provisioning itself, just a way to allow all folks in the env to
> > PXE boot w/o having to worry about boot ISO's. I'll need to actually
> > try and get the darn thing to boot from pxelinux first before even
> > thinking about Cobbler integration. Thought I would have time this
> > week but such is life ;-)
> >
> >
>
> This sounds good too. I think as I suggested earlier, probably start by
> seeing what the PXE config for one looks like... and then we can see if
> that makes more sense just with a distro add, or probably it's a
> variant
> of "cobbler image add" (systems can be attached to either profiles or
> images, so it doesn't really matter).
This turned out to be a whip of a process, I was eventually able to get
pxelinux to boot the winpe disk image, but I had to hack away at the ISO
in order to get the info I needed out of it. Also, there were a couple of
files I had to extract on the win2008 server itself, as I couldn't seem
to find a Linux tool to extract from a WIM.
I'll be able to hack a solution for my environment myself, and maybe write
something on the wiki, but having an easy "import" solution doesn't seem
feasible at this time :-(
Cobbler should be able to be taught which files to pull out of the iso
if it isn't able to right now. You can also extract wim files with the
7z archive utility from a Linux host. It might be a bit tricky to get
working, but this should be possible if you fight at it enough. If
nothing else, a wikipage on what you've done so far would be
fantastic.
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Jeff Schroeder
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