[CentOS] custom vnc install disk [dnk]

Dustin Krysak mailinglists at backbonetechnology.com
Wed Feb 1 18:15:36 UTC 2006


Thanks much!

I'll have a go at that tonight at home.


Much appreciated.


Dustin



On 1-Feb-06, at 9:55 AM, Matt Hyclak wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:40:34AM -0800, Dustin Krysak enlightened  
> us:
>> Yeah I guess I could. (I'll put the dunce cap on now).
>>
>> Would this be the proper format though?
>>
>> <snip>
>> default linux
>> prompt 0
>> timeout 0
>> display boot.msg
>> F1 boot.msg
>> F2 options.msg
>> F3 general.msg
>> F4 param.msg
>> F5 rescue.msg
>> F7 snake.msg
>> label linux
>> kernel vmlinuz
>> append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 vnc
>> vncconnect=pigdog.example.com
>> <snip>
>>
>> So I knocked the prompt and timeout to 0 (so that hopefully my cd
>> will just pop into the install with no keyboard interaction) and then
>> added the "vnc vncconnect=pigdog.example.com".
>>
>
> Looks correct to me, although personally, I would set a prompt/ 
> timeout of 5
> or so in case I ever wanted to use the disk for something else. If  
> you don't
> type anything for 5 seconds, it goes with your default. If you do type
> something, you can override your vnc settings, etc.
>
>> In those links They reference "linux vnc
>> vncconnect=pigdog.example.com" -- what is the "linux" for? Do I need
>> that in there as well? I had been all over these docs before, but I
>> think I had just not clued into the syntax.
>>
>
> 'linux' is the label. When you're typing the command in from the  
> prompt, you
> have to tell isolinux which thing you want to boot. Your append  
> syntax is
> correct.
>
> Matt
>
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