[TriLUG] PXE Questions

[Jim Ray]

One way to find out :-)

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Matt Pusateri
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:01 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] PXE Questions

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
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
>> 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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