First try did not work....
dnk wrote:
On 24/09/08 8:27 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall
Only thing I don't know how to do is have vncviewer in 'listen' mode.
I am the one that wrote that wiki article. How to put the client into listen mode depends on which VNC client you are using, and on what platform.
Building the CD was relatively easy. BTW, if you copy the Centos 5.2 1of6 iso image to a system with gnome, Nautlius 'open with Archive Manager' makes it trivial to extract all the files from the image. The rest of your build instructions were easy to follow. I am using:
kernel vmlinuz vnc vncconnect=1.2.3.5 headless ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0 method=http://me.htt-consult.com/centos/5.2/os/i386 lang=en_US keymap=us
above is all one long line....
For my setup. Where the real IP address I am using is what I got from ifconfig on my notebook.
I have 'vncviewer -listen' running in a terminal window on my Centos notebook, and it reports to be listenting on port 5500. 'iptables -L' reports ACCEPT for fcp-addr-srvr1 (which google tells me is port 5500), and I have opened port 5500 within my Intranet.
Boot from CD (there is actually a screen on my OQO, but at only 800x480, I would not know if there was something at the bottom of the display) and I watch it start up and proceed all the way to the Centos5 X screen and sit there. Nothing on the client. Guess I am going to have to open a monitor port on the switch the OQO is plugged into and watch with tcpdump to see if anything is actually happening.
hmmm, for the 'heck of it', I pressed <altN> and the install took off. Asked me what language and such I wanted (the 'standard' two dialog windows). The third <alt-N> brought me to Disk Druid. That kernel line is NOT working quite right. It is clear the changes to the first two lines 'took':
prompt 0 timeout 0
As the install did not wait for any command line input. So what is wrong with that kernel line? I editted isolinux.cfg with gedit, and I just looked at the file on the iso build server with vi and it shows that as all one line. What is wrong here? Should I break out wireshark, or is there a problem with:
kernel vmlinuz vnc vncconnect=1.2.3.5 headless ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0 method=http://me.htt-consult.com/centos/5.2/os/i386 lang=en_US keymap=us
where 1.2.3.5 is really the IP address of my client system. and me.htt-consult.com replace with the fqdn of my repo server (this works just fine with a 'linux askmethod').