Hi,
I'm trying to deploy some non-linux OS via pxe and I was thinking to just launch CentOS in RAM and then run dd or qemu-img or something like this in order to complete the other OS install via template imaging. My first idea was to build a custom CentOS livecd and use that in combination with pxe kernel parameters, but perhaps there's a better way to do this. Ideas?
Thanks, Lucian
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 07:10:08PM +0100, Nux! wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to deploy some non-linux OS via pxe and I was thinking to just launch CentOS in RAM and then run dd or qemu-img or something like this in order to complete the other OS install via template imaging. My first idea was to build a custom CentOS livecd and use that in combination with pxe kernel parameters, but perhaps there's a better way to do this.
I would use the regular kickstart %pre parts if the tools you need are already there or could be imported. If you can pxe, what about trying warewulf diskless boot to achieve what you need ( I have played with c6 + clamav + ntfs3g to clean-up a friend win7 laptop). xcat can also be a choice, although I haven't tried.
Cheers
Tru
Thanks Tru,
I'll probably look at pxe + %pre and maybe try to add qemu-img to all that.
Lucian
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From: "Tru Huynh" tru@centos.org To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, 30 July, 2015 21:22:19 Subject: Re: [CentOS] livecd vs nfsroot vs what?
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 07:10:08PM +0100, Nux! wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to deploy some non-linux OS via pxe and I was thinking to just launch CentOS in RAM and then run dd or qemu-img or something like this in order to complete the other OS install via template imaging. My first idea was to build a custom CentOS livecd and use that in combination with pxe kernel parameters, but perhaps there's a better way to do this.
I would use the regular kickstart %pre parts if the tools you need are already there or could be imported. If you can pxe, what about trying warewulf diskless boot to achieve what you need ( I have played with c6 + clamav + ntfs3g to clean-up a friend win7 laptop). xcat can also be a choice, although I haven't tried.
Cheers
Tru
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