On Thu, 6 May 2010 12:44:12 -0700, Lance Laursen <lance(a)demonware.net>
wrote:
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
--
Lance Laursen
Demonware Systems Engineer
I believe what you're looking for would be a pre-install trigger that would
fire and disable the netboot for a given host. That should be pretty easy
to do.
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