remotely installing FC using vnc ...

[bruce]

marc...

thanks for the suggestion. but i'm not familiar enough (never done it!!)
with the kickstart process. you wouldn't have a feww minutes to talk to me
about this would you!

there might be an easier approach to what we're trying to do...

thanks

bruce
bedouglas at earthlink.net
(925) 249-1844



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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Marc M
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:01 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: remotely installing FC using vnc ...


Are you doing an install from scratch or some kinda upgrade?  If the
latter, what version to what are you doing?

If the former, you can create a kickstart file on a floppy disk.
Then you boot up to it locally, and the install will want a target.
You can do the install to whatever ip address that you want.

That would be my suggestion, bypass the vnc thing or relegate it to
the back burner.  Search the archives for 'kickstart', there are lots
of threads on that and also docs on the main redhat site.

Marc


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:34:19 +0000, James Wilkinson
<james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> bruce wrote:
> > i'm trying to remotely install/upgrade a remote server. i am not a linux
> > admin.. i have no idea as to what a 'boot option' is, nor where it
should
> > go, or what file it should be in!!!
>
> What is your recovery option for when this goes wrong?
>
> Sorry if that sounds harsh, but there's a fair chance you'll need one.
> Think about what it is before you need it.
>
> Are you doing this as a one-off, or will you need to do it repeatedly?
>
> Which versions are you upgrading from?
>
> > and please don't say 'use yum/apt-get', unless you can give me pointers
as
> > to how to clear up issues that i've had with yum!!!!
>
> Search the list archives? If that doesn't help, let us know which
> problems you're having. It probably is still your best option (sorry).
>
> This post is relevant:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg06636.html
>
> James.
>
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