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@xxxxxxxxxx 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
