[CentOS] Headless system

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Yeah, that didn't work as expected ...  The system was setup to always boot
from the HD first ... in order to change that I had to go in the BIOS and
flip the order around so it would boot from the CD.  So, I ended up
stealing a coworker's keyboard when they went to lunch.  Returned it before
they came back ... no idea their keyboard took a short "trip" ...

Once that got fixed, since I already made a disk following the link that
Chris Stone sent, I went ahead and tried it et voila, works.  So thanks to
everyone for helping here.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Chris Stone <axisml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have a look at this:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VncHeadlessInstall
>
>
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com
> >wrote:
>
> > 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?
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