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Restructure boot disks in provisioning #3625

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What changes are you introducing?

Splitting the boot disk intel into multiple modules and laying out a structure that is easier to follow

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  • We should consider adding more information about the boot disk types and their use cases.

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@Lennonka Lennonka marked this pull request as draft January 29, 2025 17:47
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I have some questions and made some suggestions.

. Configure your host to boot from the external storage device.
. Power on your host.
. The host boots from the ISO.
. The host connects to {ProjectServer} and starts installing the operating system.
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Question: Is that always Foreman Server or could you also provision using a Smart Proxy Server? I am thinking ProjectServer -> SmartProxy?

If so, then we could change line 13 and 16 to Project in favor of ProjectServer.

Some hardware does not provide a PXE boot interface.
In {Project}, you can provision a host without PXE boot.
This is also known as PXE-less provisioning and involves generating a boot ISO that hosts can use.
Using this ISO, the host can connect to {ProjectServer}, boot the installation media, and install the operating system.
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same queston as above.

--primary true \
--provision true
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. Download the *Full host image* boot disk from {ProjectServer}:
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Same as above.

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