Headless install?

Bret Hughes bhughes at elevating.com
Mon Nov 17 19:02:50 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 10:48, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 16 November 2003 14:08, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > Is it possible to use the VNC install option to do a completely headless
> > > install?  How does one pass the vnc-related boot options to the
> > > bootloader if one doesn't have a keyboard?  Is kickstart the only way?
> >
> > Carefully crafted boot CD that has all the VNC info set in the default
> > image that you have set to timeout to.  You can mess with the boot.iso
> > provided and set up the options you want to use in isolinux config files.
> 
> I was hoping it would be easier than that.  Can it be done with a floppy
> and a network or hard disk install?
> 

not sure about the remote part but I was able to install fedora by
booting to the iso installation kernel an initrd provided in the
installation tree.  I am dinking now.  

Bret





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