On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, nate wrote: > James A. Peltier wrote: > >> window during installation? It poses a security risk for unattended >> installs. > > Unattended? use serial console > > Even if you don't have one, doesn't matter since it's unattended! > > nate noshell was just what I needed. The kickstarts are configured to allow any system admin to start a kickstart and then walk away. 20 minutes later this is a fully patched fully configured installation of the operating system for them to work with. It is useful to have access to the other virtual terminals to see error messages if something fails. If we switched to using serial we'd have to connect to each individual machines serial port to see these errors. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director HPC Coordinator Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com The point of the HPC scheduler is to keep everyone equally unhappy.