Perry mentioned this http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-... as a way to "kickstart" Windows guests that works better across different releases of Windows than the unattended.txt files.
Would someone mind taking a look at this and seeing what the reality of installation is to modify an ISO image to make it "fully automatically installable"? If it is possible for a user to generate an ISO and we have instructions for using it with "cobbler image add" I think this feature is set.
However, if this requires a extra server or something, we have more work to do -- such as figuring out how to talk to it over the network. In that scenario, looking at more direct integration with the unattended.net stuff may be a better route. I'm willing to do this but would prefer if we can just treat it as any other OS image. That may not be the case.
--Michael
Hi,
It is possible to add an unattend.xml file to the root of a vista iso. The installer will look for this file for an unattended installation. Not sure if this will work for XP, but it should be possible to do some sort of a custom sysprep.
Eamonn
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Michael DeHaan mdehaan@redhat.com wrote:
Perry mentioned this
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-... as a way to "kickstart" Windows guests that works better across different releases of Windows than the unattended.txt files.
Would someone mind taking a look at this and seeing what the reality of installation is to modify an ISO image to make it "fully automatically installable"? If it is possible for a user to generate an ISO and we have instructions for using it with "cobbler image add" I think this feature is set.
However, if this requires a extra server or something, we have more work to do -- such as figuring out how to talk to it over the network. In that scenario, looking at more direct integration with the unattended.net stuff may be a better route. I'm willing to do this but would prefer if we can just treat it as any other OS image. That may not be the case.
--Michael
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XP uses am unattended.txt file, which is more akin (but still a far cry from) a kickstart file.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Eamonn Walsh eamonn.walsh@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It is possible to add an unattend.xml file to the root of a vista iso. The installer will look for this file for an unattended installation. Not sure if this will work for XP, but it should be possible to do some sort of a custom sysprep.
Eamonn
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Michael DeHaan mdehaan@redhat.com wrote:
Perry mentioned this
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-... as a way to "kickstart" Windows guests that works better across different releases of Windows than the unattended.txt files.
Would someone mind taking a look at this and seeing what the reality of installation is to modify an ISO image to make it "fully automatically installable"? If it is possible for a user to generate an ISO and we have instructions for using it with "cobbler image add" I think this feature is set.
However, if this requires a extra server or something, we have more work to do -- such as figuring out how to talk to it over the network. In that scenario, looking at more direct integration with the unattended.net stuff may be a better route. I'm willing to do this but would prefer if we can just treat it as any other OS image. That may not be the case.
--Michael
cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
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Michael DeHaan wrote:
Perry mentioned this http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-... as a way to "kickstart" Windows guests that works better across different releases of Windows than the unattended.txt files.
Would someone mind taking a look at this and seeing what the reality of installation is to modify an ISO image to make it "fully automatically installable"? If it is possible for a user to generate an ISO and we have instructions for using it with "cobbler image add" I think this feature is set.
However, if this requires a extra server or something, we have more work to do -- such as figuring out how to talk to it over the network. In that scenario, looking at more direct integration with the unattended.net stuff may be a better route. I'm willing to do this but would prefer if we can just treat it as any other OS image. That may not be the case.
--Michael
cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
I've been having the 'pleasure' of redoing our Windows provisioning this summer and have been experimenting with the MS Dev Toolkit (MDT, aforementioned link). The images it generates are actually WinPE images (basically vista live, from my understanding) and they can be configured to be a single monolithic image and/or require and download from a windows (and, theoretically, samba) server. After using MDT to generate the images, serving them out via cobbler should be simple enough. In theory, MDT should be able to create an entirely automated installation, though I haven't been able to quite figure everything out, yet. (And, while MDT includes a plethora of documentation, it's in MS's usual style of selling you a process, not telling you how things work. /rant)
Ben (back from a lovely vacation)
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