Hi all.... I had posted hte following on teh centos forums, and thought there might be additional people in here who do not browse those forum, so after 4 days I am posting over here as well (sorry for the double - but figured after 4 days it was safe to do so). Hi there.... I am trying to make a custom centos server cd that will essentially do the following: throw the disk in, boot the machine, and have it connect to a listening VNC viewer on another machine - then just do the install as per normal (nothing else automated other than the VNC connection). My goal is that since I have limited space at home I want to be able to load centos onto a machine just by plugging in an ethernet cable (no monitor/mouse/keyboard), and booting it. I know using VNC is possible and such, but in the tutorials I have read, you basically you type 'linux vnc' at the boot prompt. I was reading about using a kickstart file, but the same type of issue you need to press "enter" to start the vnc install. Any ideas on how to get around this? This is what I did so far (so that maybe someone can point out my error). Now just for detail I created a SIMPLE ks.cfg file with the following: firewall --disabled vnc --connect 192.168.0.100 And when adding directives to a kickstart file - does hte order matter? IE when addign hte vnc directive, does it have to come after the networking info, etc? it was located on my cd at: /isolinux/ks.cfg I edited the file /isolinux/isolinux.cfg <snip> default linux prompt 1 timeout 1 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 ks=cdrom:/isolinux/ks.cfg <snip> As you can see i set the time out to happen immediately (hoping ot get it to jump right into the install). And I added the location to my KS file to the default option. Any ideas?