On Jan 5, 2014 9:21 AM, "bruce" <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> As a test, I want to have a complete remote/unattended install process
> for a box.
>
> The steps I'd like to have are:
>
> 1) ssh into the box, do a reboot.
> 2) the reboot process invokes an install process that installs the
> OS on the box
> 3) the install process uses http, to get the external iso/packages
> required for the install
>
> I've seen parts of this via pxeboot, but I'm dealing with older boxes
> that might not have the nic card with pxe functionality.
>
> I've seen parts of this as well, for systems that start with a cd, and
> go from there...
>
> I've seen parts of this that use the grub.conf mod, but it feeds back
> to a vncserver, which isn't what I'm looking for..
>
> I'm looking for a system, where, once the "kickstart"/install process
> is defined, then it can then be used to do remote/unattended/complete
> installs of the OS.
>
> I was thinking that it should be doable to have the grub.conf stanza
> that gets invoked on boot, to then instantiate the installation
> process, but I can't quite get my head around how this can work.
>
> If you have pointers to sites/articles, feel free to point me to
> something I might have missed.
>
> Thoughts/Comments are more than welcome.
>
> Thanks
> --
>
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/ap-medialess-install.html
--Pete
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