Karanbir Singh wrote: > Dustin Krysak wrote: > >> Hey there - I have a tutorial i wrote for my own docs - not sure if you >> guys want it on the centos wiki. >> >> It is a custom centos server 4X disk in which the install connects to a >> remote listening VNC viewer. >> >> >> The purpose of this disk is simple - to be able to install a second >> system with centos without having to hook up a keyboard/mouse/monitor. >> This second machine is my test machine, and I wipe/install often on it. >> I needed/wanted to use a disk for install as I do not have a 3rd machine >> (or the room for it) to house a NFS server with images on it. In a >> nutshell - I got sick of lifting a heavy ass CRT out of my storage every >> time i wanted to install. >> >> >> I suspect it should be located et howtos under misc. >> >> I suggest the article name "VNC Remote Install Disk". >> >> As I said - I have it written, but I am going to run through it once to >> update it for centos 4.4 (once the server CD is out). >> >> I am not sure if you guys are even interested. >> > > interested yes, but could you not achieve the same thing with the 'vnc' > parameters to the normal installer ? > > > When I looked into doing this a while ago, I had not seen a way to do exactly what I was hoping to accomplish (or at least I never found it) - and that is being able to dump in the disk with no keyboard/mouse/monitor and go. There were certain interactions with the keyboard (IE media checks, etc) to get the install to actually start. Does that make sense? Dustin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20060906/3ac753fb/attachment-0002.html>