Axel Thimm 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. >
Yes, my thoughts were the same WRT setup difficulty. > 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? > One way to do this is to use cobbler to PXE boot a live image. The live image can read any data it needs from /proc/cmdline (which can be passed via cobbler). > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
