Billy Crook <bcrook@...> writes:
What about when special modules need to be in the initrd for hardware upon which boot depends (raid cards, SAN HBAs, NICs sometimes)?
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:26 AM, David G. Miller <dave@...> wrote:
Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley <at> ...> writes:
So I'm in a bit of a pickle ... I have a machine that needs to be repurposed from WinXP to CentOS. I downloaded the CentOS DVD and all then realized ... I don't have a keyboard/mouse for the machine. It only has USB ports on it, and I don't have a single available USB keyboard that I can plug in. Bit of a problem.
Usually what I do is install via VNC anyway, but that is contingent on me already having something on the machine that allows me to connect to it so that when it boots up, I can edit the boot parameters and enable VNC. I don't have that this time.
So, the question is: can I make a DVD image that starts the installer with VNC options set and if so, how do I go about that?
Kind of "don't raise the bridge, lower the river suggestion:"
Pull the hard drive and put it in another system long enough to do the install. As long as the chip architecture is the same (32bit vs. 64 bit), it should work fine. It should work even if one system is Intel and the other AMD.
Cheers, Dave
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1) I give Ashley credit for knowing his systems and knowing if the system in question needs such a kernel module in order to boot.
2) Fairly low likelihood that the system needs such a module in order to even boot. Might need it for full functionality but that can be handled later.
3) I carry around a USB hard disk with Fedora on it. If I can get a system to boot from the drive, it always seems to work. Experience says most systems will boot without any non-standard pieces.
Cheers, Dave