[Fedora] Re: Remote VNC install
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Feb 2 21:20:34 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 13:00 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Mail List wrote:
> > What happened for me - I booted the installer out of grub with
> > kernel ... vnc vncconnect=<ip> ip=dhcp lang=en_US keymap=us device=ethX
> >
> > it boots and anaconda prompts for other eth device info before starting up
> > vnc - so I had to type at console to tell it info about the other nics -
> > after that it talks the listening vnc client at remote end -
> Well, I went ahead and tried with the following:
>
> ----------
> title Fedora Core 6 Install
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-FC6 lang=en_US keymap=us
> method=nfs:192.168.2.24:/Fedora vnc device=eth1 ip=192.168.2.10
> netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.2.1 dns=192.168.2.1
> initrd /boot/initrd-FC6.img
> ----------
>
> Rebooted, installer came up and asked exactly 1 question: Which
> device to configure. All I had to do was highlight eth1 and hit return
> and it continued on. Didn't ask me for any more information and went
> straight into Anaconda and launched VNC after which I was able to connect.
>
> My co-worker now dubs himself 'The Monkey that pushed the button.'
>
> So it seems the installer ignores the device= option. A bug perhaps?
More like a "which NIC is eth1?" problem. I don't know if there's a way
to specify which NIC to use on the kernel line when there's multiple
NICs installed. Perhaps a new parameter, "hwaddr=" or something along
that nature.
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