on 9-25-2008 1:09 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following:
Scott Silva wrote:
on 9-25-2008 12:31 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following:
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
Change the above to ; kernel vmlinuz (crlf) append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 upgradeany 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 (with the append line being one line) You can leave out the upgradeany command, it has been in there for a long time and I don't do upgrades very often.
And what about the ramdisk_size=8192? Seems I have seen that somewhere, but it is not on the current append initrd.... line in the .cfg file.
Like I said it has "been around the block" and was first used on CentOS 4 since I think it was the first one to have the vnc option. When I first started using it, the ramdisk size was too small to work properly. I don't know if the defaults are different, but it doesn't hurt as I did an install with it about 2 weeks ago on a 64 bit server with CentOS 5.