It is working..... Got through disk druid to set the drive how I like, then did the desktop setup. It is now formatting the drive, and should be all installed before long. Then the updates :) And finally fix up the anaconda-ks.cfg so I can use it to build the other 3 the same way... Scott Silva wrote: > on 9-25-2008 1:09 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: >> 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. >> >>> > Like I said it has "been around the block" and was first used on > CentOS 4 since I think it was the first one to have the vnc option. > When I first started using it, the ramdisk size was too small to work > properly. I don't know if the defaults are different, but it doesn't > hurt as I did an install with it about 2 weeks ago on a 64 bit server > with CentOS 5. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >