What about when special modules need to be in the initrd for hardware upon which boot depends (raid cards, SAN HBAs, NICs sometimes)? On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:26 AM, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote: > Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at ...> writes: > >> >> So I'm in a bit of a pickle ... I have a machine that needs to be >> repurposed from WinXP to CentOS. I downloaded the CentOS DVD and all then >> realized ... I don't have a keyboard/mouse for the machine. It only has >> USB ports on it, and I don't have a single available USB keyboard that I >> can plug in. Bit of a problem. >> >> Usually what I do is install via VNC anyway, but that is contingent on me >> already having something on the machine that allows me to connect to it so >> that when it boots up, I can edit the boot parameters and enable VNC. I >> don't have that this time. >> >> So, the question is: can I make a DVD image that starts the installer with >> VNC options set and if so, how do I go about that? >> > > > Kind of "don't raise the bridge, lower the river suggestion:" > > Pull the hard drive and put it in another system long enough to do the > install. As long as the chip architecture is the same (32bit vs. 64 bit), > it should work fine. It should work even if one system is Intel and the > other AMD. > > Cheers, > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Billy Crook • Network and Security Administrator • RiskAnalytics, LLC