trying to setup for a remote installation

[bruce]

no stephen.. i don't just need a kvm.... to look at the remote monitor...

i have a system with no cd drive... i need a way of installing FC3. i can
copy the isos to the system harddrive, and then what?

i wanted to be able to do this whole thing somewhat remotely, walking
through the Fedora/Anaconda install process.... for now, i'd settle with
being able to stick a boot floppy in, and somehoe pointing to the iso dirs
and starting the Fedora/Anaconda process that way.. although this would mean
i'd have to be at the server...

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: Seremeth, Stephen [mailto:SSeremeth at anacomp.com]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:59 AM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net
Subject: RE: trying to setup for a remote installation


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of bruce
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 12:05 PM
> To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'; 'Philip Rowlands'
> Subject: RE: trying to setup for a remote installation
>
> phill....
>
> thanks for the followup/being patient... initially, i'd like
> to be able to
> walk through the entire process from a remote system. thus
> the need for/use
> of vnc.
>
> i was hoping that i could somehow reboot the remote server,
> and have vnc pop
> up on my server/vnc window, allowing me to select the various
> attributes of
> the remote Fedora install on the remote machine...
>
> this would allow me to be able to do a manual remote install
> of Fedora,
> using VNc..
>
> the reason i wanted to do this, is to allow me to check out the drive
> configuration, and to determine what apps i wanted to select at the
> beginning...
>

While I haven't tested remote installs this way, I'd be willing to bet
it's possible, but this is _not_ kickstart.  I think you get this point
now, but kickstart is for fully-automating installs.  It doesn't mean
you can't monitor an install, but it sounds like all you really need is
a network-capable KVM so you can look at a remote console.

Regards,

Steve