I have successfully built an install CD following the instructions at:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall
Now I am trying to do the same with FC10 and I am failing in two ways. I have tried to find a similar howto for even FC9, but have not found the right google magic.
The first problem should be small. When I set isolinux.cfg to start with:
prompt 1 timeout 0
I still get prompted. There is quite a bit more to the beginning of the FC10's isolinux.cfg so that might account for it. But fortunately I do have a keyboard of sorts and a monitor of sorts so I can get to my menu select for remote vnc install. The install then proceeds and gets to setting up eth0, but fails. It seems like dhcp is not succeeding. If I boot from the standard FC10 CD, hdcp does work. Here is my append line:
append initrd=initrd.img vnc vncconnect=10.8.6.15 headless ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0 meth od=http://server.foo.com/fedora/10/os/i386 lang=en_US keymap=us
All these commands are listed at:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25826
Any pointers to where to get help on this?
Robert Moskowitz wrote on Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:10:32 -0500:
prompt 1 timeout 0
I'd say you want to set prompt 0 if you don't want a prompt. A short timeout should basically do the same, but an 0 sometimes means "indefinite".
I still get prompted.
Any pointers to where to get help on this?
That very fedoraforum ? After all, there may indeed by something different/new in that isolinux. ;-)
Kai
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote on Mon, 1 Dec 2008 13:10:32 -0500:
prompt 1 timeout 0
I'd say you want to set prompt 0 if you don't want a prompt. A short timeout should basically do the same, but an 0 sometimes means "indefinite".
I still get prompted.
Any pointers to where to get help on this?
That very fedoraforum ? After all, there may indeed by something different/new in that isolinux. ;-)
I just found the Fedora user list and subscribed to it. I am looking at screen 3 (<cntl-alt-F3>) and see a message about method= is deprecated, please use repo= instead and some other messages...
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