[TriLUG] PXE Questions

[Matt Pusateri]

What about something like cobbler.  Not sure how well it would support installing windows machines though.

https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/

Matt P.

On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Jason Evans wrote:

> Jim,
> 
> I've been reading the FOG wiki and it might work, but the problem is that I
> would be deploying OS's to multiple kinds of servers.  Some are blades, some
> rack mount, some desktops.  I don't know how well that would work with
> software imaging like FOG or Clonezilla.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Jason
> 
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> 
>> Have you looked at FOG?
>> 
>> http://www.fogproject.org/
>> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jason Evans
>> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 4:47 PM
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>> Subject: [TriLUG] PXE Questions
>> 
>> So right now, I've got a WDS (Windows Deployment Service) server set up
>> serving Windows 2008 R2 Sp1 installs and I'd like to add Linux installs
>> to the mix.  Mostly RHEL 6.2, RHEL 5.7, SLES 10, SLES 11, Ubuntu, and a
>> Firmware Live CD.
>> 
>> Ideally, I'd install a Linux distro on this box and have it completely
>> serve all of the operating systems.  What I'd really like is a simple
>> syslinux menu that when you boot to PXE it asks you what OS you want and
>> then it serves just the ISO over the network.  Automated installs aren't
>> needed for any of our installs.
>> 
>> The problem is that most of the documentation online either really old
>> or missing.  The syslinux/wdslinux website and wiki have been down for 2
>> months.  I'm looking either for some good ideas on how to proceed.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> Jason
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