Hi,

The 'cobbler buildiso' function also addresses this by making a boot cd that you can boot from and then choose the profile you want to install. 

Good docs are in the wiki and man pages on buildiso. 

Yours, 

Aaron Lippod
lippold@gmail.com
AIM/YAHOO: aaronlippold

On Dec 30, 2009, at 10:54, brown wrap <gramos@yahoo.com> wrote:

Thank you. This looks very usefull. On another note, when using the Cobbler Gui, its not always clear whats being asked for. I will input kernel location, etc and then get an error, but it gives no indication whats wrong. And the other thing I wonder about, does Cobbler just set up part of the kickstart environment? I don't see anywhere to set up exports. Thanks.

greg


--- On Tue, 12/29/09, Douglas Wade Needham <fedorahosted@ka8zrt.com> wrote:

From: Douglas Wade Needham <fedorahosted@ka8zrt.com>
Subject: Re: Kickstarting client without PXE?
To: "cobbler mailing list" <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 6:13 PM

Greg,

I have to take this approach with an older machine my daughter has.  I
use gPXE, which you can find at  http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php
and after the initial boot, it does a fully automated install quite
wonderfully. I just upgraded her machine via a re-install from FC9 to
FC12 with less than a dozen keystrokes. :)

- Doug

Quoting brown wrap (gramos@yahoo.com):
> I am browsing the docs on Cobbler and everything seems to refer to kickstating a machine using pxe boot. I have machines that don't have that capability. Can I use the setup to boot off a cd and then start the installation? Thanks.
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