On 10/22/2014 10:53 AM, Alan Evangelista wrote:
On 10/21/2014 11:55 PM, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, Alan Evangelista
> <alanoe(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com <mailto:alanoe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>> wrote:
>
> Cobbler is a Linux installation server, based on Linux boot
> loaders, Linux initrd/kernel
> and Linux automated installation processes. Why is there a Windows
> breed? How would someone
> use this to install a Windows system? imho this should be deleted.
>
>
> Both the Windows PE stuff and SCCM make it pretty painless to install
> windows entirely hands off ala kickstart. Cobbler is just really a
> smarter PXE / tftp server so if the feature works (that is a big if!)
> seems reasonable to not rip out.
I think Windows automated installation does *not* work in Cobbler
because I do not see any windows
special handling in code, only the windows breed. I do not event know
how to test this. What would I use
as kernel/initrd/kernel command line arguments/automatic installation
file?
Windows PE does not need special handling as far as I remember (from
years ago). Only way to make sure is to try today, but I certainly
wouldn't remove for not knowing how it works...
> Just because you don't use it doesn't mean other people don't.
That's exactly the point of my email. I want to know if anybody has
ever used or is using this feature.
It is useless to keep features which are not used and/or which do not
work.
It's probably not useless, and as Jeff mentioned, could be handy.
My $0.02.