[Centos-docs] VNC Remote Install Disk

Wed Sep 6 23:14:46 UTC 2006
Dustin Krysak <chaos at digitalcollision.com>

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
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