Dustin Krysak wrote: > > Here it is, and I guess let me know what you need next. Some general issues (yes, I think we should include this): Please shorten it a little bit. Meaning: Generalize it, take out the personal stories - and please: No fucking swear words on the wiki ... > The purpose of this disk is simple - to be able to install a second system > with Centos without having to hook up a keyboard/mouse/monitor. That's enough for an abstract. > I am doing this in point form with a little explanation. No real detail? > just the commands to get the job done. I did this with a Centos 4.2 box > running as root. Probably better to run it under a regular user account and > ?sudo? as needed. But alas - I did it this way. Generalize. Drop the "I can, we can, you can" - select one person to tell your story in. I'd opt for the "you can". > As you can see I changed a few minor things like the prompt and timeout to > ?0?. This is because I do not want to have to do any keyboard interaction, > nor would I be able to see the screen when I was asked for these prompts. > This disk is just for VNC installs. So the prompts and time outs were > removed. The other thing I modified was the default boot option. Now as you > can see I added the options for the default boot to initialize a VNC > connection to a listening viewer[4]3) located on ?192.168.0.100?. Obviously > modify this to match your desired network. There is a vnc parameter that can > be passed (in a boot option) in which you can set a VNC password on the > installers VNC server - but I figured since it is on my private lan behind a > firewall - what the heck. No need for it. The security concious may wish to > add this parameter. The other options cover some of the default information > required to be able to auto populate these values - otherwise you are > prompted to fill it out. But again - no keyboard/mouse/monitor. So we pass > the info here. Feel free to modify with your preferences for a different > language, etc. And as you can see, there must be a DHCP server on your LAN > to assign the IP to the machine targeted for installation. Generalize. This can be shortened. > This will create the final iso in your tmp directory. In my first run at [...] Same as above. No need for the parts about the "fine folks in the anaconda team" :) But yes, as already stated, an edited version should be hosted - in my opinion. Regards, Ralph -- Ralph Angenendt......ra@xxxxxxxxxxxx | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 M?nchen | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any other Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20060907/b8e04e1f/attachment.bin
