> 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? > You -may- be able to do something like that if you can get a DHCP server up on the same segment, and then configure it, or preconfigure your install media, to find a kickstart file that way. There's some discussion of it in the anaconda docs, although I've never investigated it. hth, Klaus
