Hey guys,
First off, I'm trying to kick off a "light touch" Server2k8 install with
cobbler. This involves using cobbler to boot an ISO boot cd, which basically
contains a WinPE environment which maps a network drive and kicks off the
rest of the server2008 installation. The problem? After the first few phases
of the windows install, a reboot happens.
Since there's no "wget
http://cobbler/cblr/svc/op/nopxe/...." in the WinPE
environment, and it's not particularly flexible because it's microsoft, I
was wondering if it is possible to have netboot-enabled automatically toggle
to False upon a boxes contact with cobbler(dhcpd), and/or on a per-profile
basis (ie: servers with profile=win2k8). If not on a per-profile basis, is
there a global option somewhere that I could maybe hack and slash some code
from?
We deploy linux servers on a large scale and don't want to babysit stupid
windows installations, or do it properly with active directory and network
segregation. Workflow for provisioning a windows server would be: cobbler
system edit --name=server123 --netboot-enabled=true , power cycle system,
DONE. If cobbler doesn't provide this feature i'll have to look into
slamming Wget for Winderz into the WinPE environment and running it after
doing a reverse dns lookup to get the hostname (puke). Also, is there a list
of "wget http://...." functions that cobbler supports in documentation
anywhere?
Thanks all
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Lance Laursen
Demonware Systems Engineer