Scott Silva wrote: > on 9-25-2008 12:31 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: >> First try did not work.... >> >> dnk wrote: >>> On 24/09/08 8:27 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall >>>> >>>> Only thing I don't know how to do is have vncviewer in 'listen' mode. >>>> >>> >>> I am the one that wrote that wiki article. How to put the client >>> into listen >>> mode depends on which VNC client you are using, and on what platform. >> Building the CD was relatively easy. BTW, if you copy the Centos 5.2 >> 1of6 iso image to a system with gnome, Nautlius 'open with Archive >> Manager' makes it trivial to extract all the files from the image. >> The rest of your build instructions were easy to follow. I am using: >> >> kernel vmlinuz vnc vncconnect=1.2.3.5 headless ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0 >> method=http://me.htt-consult.com/centos/5.2/os/i386 lang=en_US keymap=us >> > > Change the above to ; > kernel vmlinuz (crlf) > append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 upgradeany vnc > vncconnect=1.2.3.5 headless ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0 > method=http://me.htt-consult.com/centos/5.2/os/i386 lang=en_US keymap=us > (with the append line being one line) > You can leave out the upgradeany command, it has been in there for a > long time and I don't do upgrades very often. And what about the ramdisk_size=8192? Seems I have seen that somewhere, but it is not on the current append initrd.... line in the .cfg file. > >> above is all one long line.... >> >> > If you are going to do a remote install source, just use the netboot > cd image. It is much smaller, and doesn't have to deal with the media > check. What does that save me? I already have the 1of6 iso image here... > > I do installs like this all the time on headless servers in my site. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >