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... if this isn't possible, then i guess the next step would be to create a kickstart file, and somehow do the install that way. the machine wil be booting off a harddrive. once i get the machine up, i could then always use yum to keep it updated... thanks -bruce -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Philip Rowlands Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 5:27 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: trying to setup for a remote installation On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, bruce wrote: >in order to do a remote FC3 installation, using vnc, it appears that i need >to create a floppy bootdisk, copy a kickstart file to it, place the FC3 ISOs >on a HTTP server, and add the required VNC commands to the bootloader of the >kickstart file. Hi Bruce, I think I may have clouded rather than clarified the kickstart process: - Do you want to automate the installation (i.e. launch it and walk away), or go through the prompts (disk layout, package selection) manually? Kickstart files are necessary only in the first case; kickstart is not needed simply to perform a remote install. - How will the machine be booted up? Floppy images are severely lacking when it comes to network installation; you'd have to mess around with driver disks, which isn't much fun. CD would be simplest; PXE (i.e. boot entirely from the network) is another option, but requires DHCP, TFTP, HTTP/NFS servers. - What's the purpose of the VNC invocation? Is the machine in an inaccessible rack/office somewhere? Does the bootup to install have to work entirely "hands-off", or is there someone to insert a floppy/CD? To put a kickstart file on the harddisk, this is the syntax (from kickstart-docs.txt): ks=hd:<device>:/<file> e.g. ks=hd:sda3:/mydir/ks.cfg Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
