Re: Dell DTK bootable iso or pxe images with Cobbler

2010-04-22 Thread Robin Bowes
Jon, Have you used DTK successfully with Cobbler? If so, would you mind sharing how you did it? Just an overview would be fine so I can get my head round what to do. For some reason, Dell wouldn't deliver the latest batch of R410s configured with RAID10, they came with RAID5, so I will have 42 m

Re: Dell DTK bootable iso or pxe images with Cobbler

2010-03-10 Thread Alexander Dupuy
Jonathan Sabo wrote: > It would be really nice if there were getty's running on ttyS0 and > ttyS1 and those were added to the the etc/securetty file as well. > > Lots of people use serial consoles to manage their servers. I do. > Amen to that. And while we're on the subject of even more remo

Re: Dell DTK bootable iso or pxe images with Cobbler

2010-03-10 Thread Alexander Dupuy
Jon Sabo writes: > Starting at line 218 of bin/start-stage3.sh inside the SA.2 initrd file. > > ... > Could the above code snippet be included in future DTK releases so I > don't have to keep editing these files please? And in the very unlikely chance that somebody actually does that, perhaps

Re: Dell DTK bootable iso or pxe images with Cobbler

2010-03-09 Thread Jon Sabo
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Tom Rockwell wrote: > Jon, > > The DTK ISO is bootable.  You can also PXE boot using images from the disk. >  I don't grok the full DTK setup, however, if you just PXE boot with the > kernel and initrd (files SA.1 and SA.2) you'll have a Linux system that > supports

Re: Dell DTK bootable iso or pxe images with Cobbler

2010-03-03 Thread Tom Rockwell
Jon, The DTK ISO is bootable. You can also PXE boot using images from the disk. I don't grok the full DTK setup, however, if you just PXE boot with the kernel and initrd (files SA.1 and SA.2) you'll have a Linux system that supports BIOS/Firmware updates and the syscfg tool. It uses busy bo

Dell DTK bootable iso or pxe images with Cobbler

2010-03-03 Thread Jon Sabo
List, I want to be able to automatically configure bios settings and raid settings and whatever else I can configure as part of a pre-provisioning process. I'm pretty sure the Dell Deployment toolkit is the right set of tools. The things is I don't want to have to install them and have them on t