08-27-2012
I believe your goal is to automate the installation of OS including the application so that it starts working out of the box.
Well, for OS installation, the good old kickstart should do the job. For the application installation and configuration, you may automate it with puppet. It scales really good when the configuration is complicated and has lots of dependencies.
If puppet is not an option for you, go ahead and write a shell script which would mount an NFS export with all the configs, executables, etc required for your app and will install them locally.
If you want, you can make P2V (physical to virtualized) image (to be used as a VM later) for the physical machine with the app installed.
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isohybrid
isohybrid(1) General Commands Manual isohybrid(1)
NAME
isohybrid -- Post-process an ISO 9660 image generated with mkisofs or genisoimage to allow hybrid booting as a CD-ROM or as a hard disk.
SYNOPSIS
isohybrid [OPTIONS] <boot.iso>
DESCRIPTION
The isohybrid utility modifies a an ISO 9660 image generated with mkisofs, genisoimage, or compatible utilities, to be bootable as a CD-ROM
or as a hard disk.
OPTIONS
-h <X>
Number of default geometry heads
-s <X>
Number of default geometry sectors
-e <X>, --entry <X>
Specify parititon entry number (1-4)
-o <X>, --offset <X>
Specify partition offset (default 0)
-t <X>, --type <X>
Specify MBR ID (default random)
-u, --uefi
Build EFI bootable image
-m, --mac
Add Apple File Protocol partition table support
--forcehd0
Assume we are laoded as disk ID 0
--ctrlhd0
Assume disk ID 0 if the Ctrl key is pressed
--partok
Allow booting from within a partition
-?, --help
Display help
-v, --verbose
Display verbose output
-V, --version
Display version information
SEE ALSO
mkisofs(1)
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