On 02/03/2015 10:28 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Is there a way to use kickstart to boot a machine into a manual setup
> process? Basically what I'm getting to is this, the machine doesn't not
> have a CD drive in it (nor can I add one), but I can boot it via kickstart.
> The install media is on the network. What I'd like to do is boot this
> machine up and rather than have kickstart do everything for me as far as
> installing the OS and packages, instead present me with a manual setup
> (that I can get to via vnc) where I get to pick what I want or don't want
> on the machine. After it's all done, I'm going to go through the anaconda
> files and generate a base kickstart for all future installs. Does anyone
> have an example kickstart file I can go off of to do that?
It sounds like you just want to do a VNC install. There is a write-up
in the RHEL installation guide on doing just that. You can either have
the installer accept incoming VNC connections for the session or have it
connect to a listening VNC client via boot arguments.
The documentation says that you can just put "vnc" (or
"vncconnect={host}") in the kickstart file in the command section and
proceed from there. Here's a link to an article in Red Hat Magazine
that has a pretty good overview:
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/kickstart/
As usual, YMMV!
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Jay Leafey - jay.leafey at mindless.com
Memphis, TN