<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br>Hi,<br>Start by running a vncviewer in listen mode (I use realvnc: vncviewer --listen from a command line ). Boot the machine to install linux with the cd-rom and you type:<br><br>linux ip=xx.xx.xx.xx netmask=xx.xx.xx.xx dns=xx.xx.xx.xx gateway=xx.xx.xx.xx vnc vncconnect=xx.xx.xx.xx vncpassword=abcdef method=cdrom keymap=us lang=en_US.UTF-8<br><br>You need to specify IP, method, keymap and lang information otherwise it will ask you for this before vnc is running.<br><br>the ip address is the address you want to give to the machine your installing linux on. Can also be ip=dhcp<br>vncconnect is the IP address you ran the vncviewer on<br>vncpassword is the password. Not sure if it should be encrypted or mot<br>method=cdrom specify
your install media<br><br>By booting from a cd-rom you unfortunately have to perform a media check. This requires output to a screen and a few key presses and I don't know if this can be disabled. The way I got round this was to use an NFS server, so the boot line is:<br><br>linux ip=xx.xx.xx.xx netmask=xx.xx.xx.xx dns=xx.xx.xx.xx
gateway=xx.xx.xx.xx vnc vncconnect=xx.xx.xx.xx vncpassword=abcdef
\ <br> method=nfs:xx.xx.xx:/{PATH TO LINUX_DISTRO EXPORTED FROM NFS SERVER} keymap=us lang=en_US.UTF-8<br><br>eg,<br>method=nfs:10.2.34.123:/export/RHEL5.4/i386<br><br>/export/RHEL5.4/i386 is the path on the NFS server to the DVD distribution on disk. You have to copy the contents of the DVD to disk.<br><br>Heres a useful web page:<br><span>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/kickstart/">http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/kickstart/</a></span><br><br>Hope this is of some help.<br><br>James<br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Peter Allen <peter.allen.5000@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> kickstart-list@redhat.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, February 24, 2011 1:00:18 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> boot cd-rom network install on system with no display using vnc<br></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks</span></font></p>
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