Presumably, that's what you'd use kickstart for ... but I'm going to leave that for someone with more knowledge answer that. I'm just happy with a working system right now. On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Billy Crook <bcrook at riskanalytics.com>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >