[CentOS] Re: netboot, vnc and no keyboard/mouse/monitor

Fri Jun 20 21:58:24 UTC 2008
dnk <d.k.emaillists at gmail.com>

For those of you that were interested, it is now posted on the wiki....


http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall

Let me know if you have any questions.

Dnk




On 16-Jun-08, at 7:38 AM, Tim Nelson wrote:

> Has a wiki entry been created for this yet? A search of  
> wiki.centos.org hasn't come up with anything useful. Either my  
> search skills are sub-par or it isn't there... :-)
>
> Tim Nelson
> Systems/Network Support
> Rockbochs Inc.
> (218)727-4332 x105
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dnk" <d.k.emaillists at gmail.com>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 4:12:36 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: netboot, vnc and no keyboard/mouse/monitor
>
>
> On 9-Jun-08, at 1:55 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
>
>> on 6-9-2008 12:55 PM dnk spake the following:
>>> hey guys,
>>> I just created a custom netboot cd, that launches and loads from a
>>> http source, but connects to a vnc listening viewer. All in all,
>>> not hard to do, but what is different with this one is that it
>>> skips the media check, has no prompts and allows you to start the
>>> install on a machine that has no keyboard/mouse/monitor. Was handy
>>> for me as when i have some boxes to load, I just plug in power and
>>> ethernet in the corner (or where ever I have room) and go through
>>> the install.
>>> I know it also works with a cd as a source (if you use it from cd
>>> 1), and assume it would also work with a DVD (have not tested yet).
>>> If you would like it, I can add to the wiki if anyone would like it.
>>> DNK
>> Please add this, as I never could get the media check skipped on a
>> local CD install without a kickstart file.
>>
>
>
> Yeah that one was a real pain to get around. Well more of a pain due
> to hunting down the actual method.... the command is easy... once you
> know what it is.
>
> dnk
>
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