On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Axel Thimm <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:50:39PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote: >> Axel Thimm wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:06:39PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote: >> > >> >> Windows belongs running on virt. In general, for non-Linux OS's, we >> >> should also concentrate on virt. >> >> >> > >> > there is still *new* hardware out there not supporting hardware >> > virtualization which Windows seems to require. >> > >> > Currently I'm looking at a small sized deployment at a school where no >> > system supports hardware virtualization and I assume that most other >> > schools don't either. >> > >> > Just a data point. >> > >> >> Absolutely, you have to plan for it when you are building out your >> environment. More so for schools, they are likely to have old, if not >> ancient, hardware. >> >> Possibly http://clonezilla.org/ ? > > I've looked at it, especially the parts that try to restore > hostname/sid information. It does look a bit cumbersome to setup and I > manage similar things with booting linux off pxe and using ntfsclone. > > Is it possible to boot into cobbler/anaconda and skip the package > selection part? E.g. only have custom scripts %post applied like > ntfsclone from an nfs share?
You might be able to hack this with something like this: %packages --nodocs --nobase %post ... Not sure if anaconda will barf but that might do what you want. Can you try it and let us know? -- Jeff Schroeder Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix. http://www.digitalprognosis.com _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
