Automated kickstart of remote machine

[Chowdhury, Chandan Dutta]

Hello,

It is possible to start a kickstart install by putting something like
the following entries in the grub.conf

default=0
timeout=5
title Ignite4Linux rhel4-as-i386 Install
        root (hd0,9)
        kernel /vmlinuz
        initrd /initrd.img ks=http://192.168.100.1/kickstart/ks.cfg

Here the vmlinuz and initrd.img are images from the
1st-cdrom/images/pxeboot/ 
You need to put these images in the /boot dir and make the entries in
the grub.conf
You have to adjust the root(hd0,9) to your environment. Basically it
points to the /boot partition if there is one or the / partition.

You can make the ks.cfg through any other means.

Of cource you should be absolutely sure of the ks.cfg . It is always a
good idea to start a vnc install, in case there is a problem in the
install.

Regards
-CDC



-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 7:07 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Automated kickstart of remote machine

Call me crazy, but this sounds like an awfully big hassle to get
working.. 
And if it breaks, it's going to be a pain.  Since this is only one
machine, why use kickstart at all? Why not use the VNC option that lets
you drive the upgrade/installation remotely?

James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394

kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 06/10/2005 10:23:11 PM:

> Hello, all -
> 
> I've set up a small lab in VMWare to experiment with upgrading an 
> older machine.  I'd like to come up with a process to completely 
> re-install
> RHEL4 on the machine.  I'm trying to pull all this off in a little lab

> before I go for the big money - a server that is about 1200 miles away

> from me.
> 
> I'm able to do a kickstart install off of a CD, or a disk - that's
cake.
>  However, I don't know much about doing a kickstart on a remote 
> machine, a machine I will have no physical access to.  All I can do 
> (and hopefully after the kickstart will still be able to) is SSH to 
> the machine as it stands.
> 
> I guess what I'm asking here is what are my options in an effort to 
> kickstart this machine remotely?  Is there a process which I can hack 
> at grub a little bit to load some additional kickstart paramaters next

> time it boots, and at that time, it would begin the kickstart?  Is 
> that how it's done in this situation?
> 
> Thanks again for the time
> -dant
> 
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