Glenn Bailey wrote: > Howdy folks, > > Let me see if I got this process down correctly for being able to PXE boot a > Windows > install. > > 1. Create a virtualized ISO as outlined here: > > https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/AllAboutImages >
Ok, you have a few things confused below, which I'll try to straighten out a bit... > 2. Create a liveCD with Koan that automatically loads the "win32" profile I > created > in the above step > The koan live CD is old (now unsupported by me due to various problems with grubby on F9) technology for simulating PXE for bare-metal installs. What you want to do is use koan to install a virtual image koan --virt --image=imagename --server=cobbler.example.org > 3. Create a PXE bootable liveCD as outlined here: > > https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd > > You would not use live CD's for this. You would be installing virt using the OS installer media. Live images are mainly for physical systems to run an operating system on physical hardware without doing an install. > Now, this seems simple enough, but will this let me install, say a Windows > Server 2008 > machine from the WinPE iso's provided by my windows guys? They already have a > build > system in place, and I just want to be able to let everyone boot via PXE > instead of > having to use an actual ISO and I want to keep control of the PXE server .. > ;-) Or is > there a simplier method of getting a WinPE boot disk into the PXE server? > The idea with the above is to keep the Windows ISO on NFS and use it to install Windows guests on Linux xen fullvirt or KVM hosts. > Also, if this is the correct method, is there already a minimal ISO out there > that can > be used just for koan installs? Like a 'koan' rescue disk or what not ;-) > See the documentation on the Wiki for "cobbler buildiso" if you need to create minimal net-install media. Koan is used for three purposes now: (1) kicking of virtual installs as configured by Cobbler (2) reinstalls of existing Linux systems by replacing the kernel/initrd -- somewhat of a fringe case because it assumes you have a working system you want to upgrade (3) In 1.3 and later, updating configuration files from templates that are being managed by Cobbler > glenn - terremark worldwide > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
