Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] LinuxCOE 'replay' feature

[Lee M. <lee...@hp...>]

Daniel Miles wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 5:26:38 pm Mayes, Lee wrote:
>   
>>   Does it look useful?  Anything missing?  It's a trivial change to the
>> back-ends, and when it's all ready we'll check-in the lot along with
>> Dan's SIM changes.
>>     
>
> ...Maybe I'm missing the point but I'm not clear about what this modification 
> does that "cp" doesn't do. Are the ISOs that replay generates different from 
> eachother?
>   
Exactly.  We have mass deployments in data centers that do not allow PXE 
or DHCP.   I know that sounds odd, but that's where it's at.  If you 
feed replay the same file, you'll get the same ISO.  But you can tweak 
this file for things like hostname/IP and re-toss it, vs. walking 
through the GUI for each unique ISO you need to generate.   That's the 
main attraction and feature IMO.   There's a sample use-case on the web 
page.

Best Regards,

Lee