On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:51:02 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen
<kanarip(a)kanarip.com> wrote:
James Cammarata wrote:
> Ok, think I've got a working solution (but haven't tested it yet).
>
This pretty much sounds like what I have suggested we do earlier, but
for the random generation of NTLDR and winnt.sif names. Those can just
sequence (w0001, w0002, ... if you will). If nothing else, a sqlite db
can track what is what.
Random or sequential, either works for me. I did random because it was
easier (not currently checking for collisions... though it will).
> This will be alpha-numeric,
> so the hard limit on systems in cobbler will be 36^4 (1,679,616) windows
> systems...
actually the filename is limited to exactly 5 characters, but if you
make it start with a "w", there's only one set of TFTP rewrite rules
you'd have to do to have all Windows related files in a sub-directory of
the TFTP root.
What I meant was, 1 fixed, 4 variable, so that's 36^4 possible windows
systems (since linux/other probably wouldn't use this id). But yeah, using
the same leading character for all the files would make things a bit more
simple.
> So far, what works:
> 1) importing XP from CD
Note that I found you'll need startrom.n12 from Windows 2003 and we're
not allowed to ship it.
That's fine, we can put it on the wiki. However I'm using the following
two links as my guide, and neither mention this:
http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux.php
http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/pxe.php
> 2) profile/system creation
> 3) ASCII pxe file generation
> 4) tftpd rule generation
>
This could be a one time if you settle for having all Windows related
files in one sub-directory of the TFTP root.
> What doesn't:
> 1) sif (answer file) generation
This could just be a single winnt.sif to get things running and evolve
from there.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
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